Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1996
Abstract
While we believe that the work of healing our cultural dyslexia is partly cognitive, in and through this paper we have tried to enact the experiential aspect. We may approach the entrances of the borderlands through reading and thinking, however we believe that the borderlands is a phenomenon of living, a phenomenon of well-intentioned people interacting in deliberate and thoughtful ways with those who are simultaneously like and unlike us/them. The borderlands require that we bring our critical faculties to bear on life's experiences, but, more often than not, we must suspend them in favor of more charitable and affiliative impulses. In the borderlands we eschew "mind-knowing" for "feeling thought" so that we can come to appreciate the joys and tribulations of those around us in a way that makes a difference that matters.
Publication Title
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Volume
6
First Page
387
Keywords
Borderlands, Cross-Cultural Learning
Recommended Citation
Margaret E. Montoya & Melissa Harrison,
Voices/Voces in the Borderlands: A Colloquy on Re/Constructing Identities in Re/Constructed Legal Spaces,
6
Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
387
(1996).
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