Teaching Borderlands
Arte De Lagrimas
In Teaching Borderlands, we aim to engage in strategically planned and programmatic conversations with faculty, administrators, and students about the history, ethics, theology, and hermeneutics of the US borderlands from a diverse Latinx perspective. The central concern is that much of this southbound discourse about the US borderlands has led to increased racial stigmatization and criminalization of brown bodied Latinx people across this border-scape territory (which includes both sea and land). Our central goal is not only to offer a counter story of the borderlands but ultimately to foster a life-giving vision of Latinidad for educational ecology.