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Other Voices / Héctor Tobar
Douglas Mexican Consulate 4 chapter 4

This photograph from the Bi-National Arts Institute shows the border towns of Douglas, Arizona, and
Agua Prieta from the Mexican state of Sonora as they celebrate a cultural festival that transcends the
wall that stands between them.
What features on each side of the wall identify it as either Mexico or the United States? How do
the details in this photograph reflect Tobar’s discussion of the complexities of identity?

One of the last holdouts in Duranguito is 20 running through the middle, and people crossed
DIFFERENTIATION
DIFFERENTIA
TION
the border bridges with ease. Sometimes the
ninety-three-year-old Antonia Morales; nearly one hundred years. That’s the nature of this use with its products. Not for redistribution.
everyone else has been evicted or accepted pay- border agent didn’t even bother to check your Scaffolding
Scaffolding
ments to move out. She is white-haired, spry, papers, she told me. “He would say, ‘Hi, how ®
AP Teaching Tip. If you have looked at
and sometimes salty of speech, and like many are you?’ ” AP ®
the 2018 AP
locals, she is a true child of border culture. Romo told me he isn’t particularly fond of the 2018 AP Language synthesis prompt
Morales was born in Columbus, New Mexico, the term “Latino”; he prefers to call himself fron- about eminent domain, you might ask stu-about eminent domain, you might ask stu-
dents to consider how Morales’
twelve years after that border town was raided terizo, a person of the border. “We’re not immi- dents to consider how Morales’s story s story
5
by Pancho Villa, then moved to Ciudad Juárez, grants; we’re transnational residents,” he said. would apply or how it could be used as would apply or how it could be used as
evidence for a position on the prompt.ompt.
and finally to El Paso. Duranguito was a tough “We’ve been going back and forth for more than evidence for a position on the pr
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neighborhood when she arrived in the Sixties.
“I’m going to fight for my community, because place. You’re a hybrid of sorts.” Over the past two
TION
DIFFERENTIA
I worked hard to live in a clean and safe commu- decades, however, the border has become less DIFFERENTIATION
nity,” she told me. “I’m not moving from here.” fluid, as one crackdown after another has filled
Connections to Text
When she first got to the area, El Paso and El Paso with officers working for the Border Connections to T e xt
Ciudad Juárez formed a single town with a river Patrol, the DEA, and other law-enforcement T o extend the definition of a “fr onterizo”
To extend the definition of a “fronterizo”
agencies. The Trump Administration opened a (par. 21) as an identity label, you might sug-
. 21) as an identity label, you might sug-
(par
large migrant detention camp near El Paso that gest students r ead Irais Urias’ s article “As a
gest students read Irais Urias’s article “As a
5 Pancho Villa (1878–1923) was a famous Mexican revolutionary and
onteriza, I Know What It’
Pr
oud Fr
s Like to
guerrilla fighter. — Eds. held more than six thousand children, which Proud Fronteriza, I Know What It’s Like to
Consider Both America and Mexico My
Consider Both America and Mexico My
Home” (December 29, 2018), available on
Home” (December 29, 2018), available on
277 the POPSUGAR Culture blog. Urias is also
e blog. Urias is also
the POPSUGAR Cultur
from the El Paso border. How do her expe-
fr om the El Paso bor der . How do her expe-
riences and sense of identity compare to
riences and sense of identity compar e to
those of Romo and Morales in this section?
those of Romo and Morales in this section?
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