Borderland Rhetorics

The histories represented in this collaborative project reflect the dynamic, nonlinear,

sometimes porous, sometimes bridged, sometimes fenced people and rhetorics of the

El Paso border. In our attempt to uncover, or recover, texts, images, voices, and rhetorics, we don't

intend to merely add to the landscape of the "rhetorical tradition," for an addition can

connote the filling of an absence, but to highlight forgotten and historically

silenced pieces of that rhetorical landscape. These traditions have never been absent, they

have simply been ignored by traditionally traditional historiography.

Anita August, in Crossed Over by the Border

Lucia Dura's Zones of Tolerance Bodies of Tolerance focuses on ....

Hector Carbajal, in Religion, Rhetoric, and Political Activism: Remembering the Farah Strike (1972-1974), dives into the world of ...  Brian McNely, in Liminal Zones,

discusses histories and historiographies related to the 1963 Chamizal Convention, and the ways

in which territorial spaces embody and reflect rhetorics of dominance and resistance.  Cristina

Ramirez, in Sites of Resistance: Tiendas of the El Paso / Juarez Border considers the spaces of resistance created

by tienditas (small stores) that dot the segundo barrio and surrounding border region. Robert Tinajero, in Borderland Hip Hop,

looks at Hip Hop in the El Paso and Borderland region,with a focus on lyrics, graffiti, and vehicles

as pieces of the counter-hegemonic discourse that make up the ethos of Borderland Hip Hop.

Please click on the links above or in the sidebar to go to our separate projects.  There is also a

link with our short biographies.

Aoy School in El Paso, Texas 

We hope you enjoy the site and that it serves as a catalyst for future work in Borderland Rhetorics.

Images of La Fe Mural and Aoy School borrowed from the Paso Del Sur historians.