From Velvet Barrios, in Gendered Bodies and Borders in Contemporary Chican@ Performance and Literature by Suzanne Chavez-Silverman:
"I live smack in the fissure between two worlds, in the infected wound...today, when they ask me for my nationality or ethnic identity, I can't respond with one word, since my "identity" possesses multiple repertoires: I am Mexican but I am also Chicano and Latin American. At the border they call me chilango; in Mexico City it's pocho; and in Europe its sudaca. The Anglos call me "Hispanic."...I walk amid the rubble of the tower of Babel of my American postmodernity."
--said by Guillermo Gomez-Pena about in-betweeness
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