"…Borders, as everyone should know, are not geographical locations alone, they are made by humans, and some suffer while others live off their fellow men and women. The way some characters speak and explain themselves also reveals what social borders the characters have forged for themselves or how they have suffered because of borders, be they linguistic, cultural, social, racial, etc."
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On how borders affect societies in “At Home in the Borderlands: An Interview with Rolando Hinojosa” in American Studies Journal (2012)
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Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (January 21, 1929 – April 19, 2022) was an American novelist, essayist, poet and the Ellen Clayton Garwood professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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