Please join us as we revisit the past service by Marissa Gomez-Palmer entitled Complexities of Borders and Cultural Identity.

Borders are man made imagined boundaries that have become critical extensions of cultural identity. Creating a complexity that ties it all up in perceived ownership, rights, and claims to historically colonized land thus distorting and complicating the growing dissent around immigration. That more than half of immigrants into the U.S. come from Latin America means it makes Latinos an easy target for xenophobes while simultaneously facilitating a tendency to homogenize and negate cultural identity by applying a single convenient label like “Latinos”.