"The border is not the idealized metaphorical site of a new hybridity. Laredo, Nogales, Juarez, Mexicali, Calexico, Tijuana, National City are not figures of speech. They are first and last physical locations of great economic, social and cultural strife. Still, it is all for a purpose: this facile use of language. The “border” as a metaphor poses no threat to the cultural and economic dominance by Euro-America."

 - Cherie Moraga

Excerpt - Over, Under, Sideways, Down - Golbalization, spatial metaphors, and the question of state power

By Peter Bratsis

Al Qaeda and what it means to be modern - John Gray

MAS - A STORY THAT MUST BE TOLD!

I am super excited to tell share this news with you! This summer the creative team of Milta Ortiz (playwright) and Marc David Pinate (director) moved to Tucson, Arizona to interview, write, and produce a docudrama play about the now infamous banning of Mexican American Studies classes in the Tucson Unified School District.

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