The Mexican Borderlands

Paper Summary:

This paper reflects facts and feelings about the life of people on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. The approach taken in this research is to review the present day realities of the borderlands - some of those realities being harsh and even brutal - as well as learn what authors and poets and scholars have written about the preceding experiences of people on the borderlands. It contends that the themes that are presented - some sentimental, some poetic, others realistic and historical - are very important to the understanding of the borderland experience.

Outline
Introduction
Present Borderland Realities
Borderlands Experiences Viewed Through Literature
Borderlands Viewed Through History & Scholarship

From the Paper:

"When it comes to the unsolved murders in Ciudad Juarez, the numbers of dead and missing vary dramatically, and change frequently. But it is a known fact that over the past sixteen or so years, hundreds of young women have been murdered, raped, dragged to remote desert graves, and in many cases mutilated in and around Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across a bridge from El Paso, Texas. The unsolved heinous killings fall under three categories: they are ethnic ("racial") because the women are all Latino (Mexican); they are of a class nature because the great majority of women are working class individuals - low income employees - who are employed in the maquiladora; and third, they are of a sexual / gender nature because all the victims are women"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Amnesty International. "Mexico: Justice fails in Ciudad Juarez and the city of Chihuahua." (2005). Retrieved August 10, 2007, from http://news.amnesty.org/mavp/news.nsf/print/ENGAMR410072005.
• Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Book Company, 1987.
• Calvert, Robert A; De Leon, Arnoldo; & Cantrell, Gregg. The History of Texas. Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc, 2002.
• Camacho, Alicia Schmidt. "Gender Violence and the Denationalization of Women's Rights in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico." CR: The New Centennial Review 5.1 (2005): 255-292.
• Embry, Marcus. "Cholo Angels in Guadalajara: The Politics and Poetics of Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera." Women & Performance 8.2 (1996): 87-108.

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• Analytical Essay # 72858 : "The Chicano Experience"

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