In "The Aural Border", Josh D. Kun talks about all the different kinds of borders that are being formed. "Outside the grasp of the official border(s) yet informed by them, there arises a multiplicity of unofficial borders where borderness is voiced and rescued from the willful aphasia of official culture." This includes narrative, performative and aural borders. All these mediums are helping to draw lines in the sand but I wonder if Kun thinks they are drawing the same line? He speaks of so many types of cultural borders, but does he seem them all as separating the same two sides? Are they simply layered one on top of the other; expressing the same split through different artistic traditions?
In his address, Pena expresses frustration with the select few that have come to represent a Latin boom in American popular culture. "It is mainly the artists who voluntarily or unknowingly resemble the stereotypes who end up being selected by the fingers of the Latino boom..." How would he address the select group? What responsibility ought they bear on behalf of the Latino culture or would he rather they detach themselves entirely? Is it better to have (mis)representation or none at all?
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