“Racism intersects with sexism to pit women of color and white women against each other. Women of color are sexualized
Category: On the Ground
Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part Two
It was to counter feelings of being an alien from outer space that I dived headlong into assimilation, into the
Latina on the Border: Musings of a Feminist Immigrant, Part One
What am I but Woman and Other? While engaging the complex host of issues that accompany immigration, uprooting, and gender
Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part Two
Migrant Border Politics My previous installment questioned tendencies on both right and left to represent the migrant caravan through reductive
Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part One
General Introduction On October 13, 2018, a large caravan of migrants departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, heading north toward
Border College: The Past, Its Present, Our Future
I little thought as a graduate student that my academic future lay in driving a truck around Texas brush country.
On Being Borg, On Being Puerto Rican
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not
Belonging and Accents: Salvadoran Diaspora in Mexico and the U.S.
We are not born with accents, yet accents and dialects are tied to region, nationalities, and class. Like many immigrants