La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness
How I love this tragic valley of South Texas, as Ricardo Sanchez calls it; this borderland between the Neuces and the Rio Grande. This land has survived possession and ill-use by five countries: Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the U.S., the COnfederacy, and the U.S. again. It has survived Anglo-Mexican blood feuds, lynchings, burnings, rapes, pillage.
-Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.
This was almost the ad campaign for Six Flags over Texas!
