I can't seem to stay out of my own way.
Gloria E. AnzaldúaTags: borderlands
Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.
James Carlos BlakeTags: character borderlands
So the Juárez/El Paso area before the recent drug violence was not a bilingual, bi-national, bicultural Zion, but it was one world. One entity. One place. One city where you could live in between worlds, and have the hope of creating something new. A third way to be, not along the border, but on the border.
That is what the violence has destroyed, that unity, however tenuous it ever was. It has destroyed the idea of that unity and the reality of living so uniquely astride an international border. This ‘real idea’ was always a work-in-progress, and for the moment it is lost. Yet that real idea of unity had great value.
Tags: mexico drug-war borderlands border mexico-drug-war sergio-troncoso borderland
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