USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -’Borderlands’ is a key term today in the analysis of liminal spaces and practices of transgression in the interconnected local and the global contexts, especially in Third World, transnational, and women of color feminism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Border theory refers to a body of scholarship that has diverse interdisciplinary, political, social, and academic origins but has become institutionalized in the academy and crystallized into a mode of analysis that has quieted its messy beginnings.

Detailed explanation-3: -Borderlands details the invisible “borders” that exist between Latinas/os and non-Latinas/os, men and women, heterosexuals and homosexuals, and other groups. Each of the essays and poems draws on the author’s life experiences as a Chicana and lesbian.

Detailed explanation-4: -She made contributions to fields of feminism, cultural theory/Chicana, and queer theory. Her essays are considered foundational texts in the burgeoning field of Latinx philosophy.