What is the border? The border is a marginalized, liminal space of contradictions. A space of shifting multiple identities. Life on the borders is life in the shadow. The border is where two or more cultures, classes, races, ideologies, et cetera edge or confront each other. There is a space between cultures, classes, races, sexual orientations--call them worlds or world views-- where they meld, where they mix, where they are both worlds/world views and neither world/world views. They are what Anzald a calls los intersicios--the spaces between. Identity for Anzald a is about language--about bo...

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... write about besides not getting laid or their parents' divorce. Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit... imagine what would happen if you crossed them with, say, James Taylor. Wow! 4) Zach de la Rocha's head explodes. Along with the heads of Michael Moore, Jello Biafra, Serj Tankian, Sascha Konietzko, KRS-1, Ani Difranco (fingers crossed), and a lot of other musicians and artists on the ... opinionated judgement call, so feel free to disagree - but when P. Diddy "invented the remix" he basically killed everything positive about hip-hop in the early 90s. Public Enemy, Arrested Development...

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