1. "Border Boda" talks a lot about the concept of racism and sexism being linked. Waller writes, "there might be a quasi-sexual pleasure involved for some Anglo-identified spectators of images of Mexicans as abject." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Is racism and racist images or thoughts in any way related to a fetish of power and control over abjected peoples?

2. Both "Border Boda" and inSITE are art/performance events meant to bridge the gap between the border through thoughtful art and bilingual/binational debate. However, it seems that it solely represents a liberal political view. Can an art or performance event such as these really be called binational when they exclude the views of many "conservatives"? Couldn't one argue that these events just further propogate the idea of "us vs. them" by essentially doing the same thing to conservatives as these "bigots" "racists" and "Anglo-identified" peoples do to them?