Scholarship itself is a marked territory. The intent of scholarship is to question, discover and inform. Yet, because research is founded upon hierarchies of privilege and exclusivity,
the information sent is filtered. In consequence, research which represents truths unacknowledged by the dominant class is branded counterfeit and fabricated,
and therefore not given the respect and accreditation deserved. To combat this disenfranchisement, authors and communities of these undervalued
truths are relentlessly redefining the borders and pushing away from the minimization of critical thinking and into a pluralistic practice of truths as scholarly investigation.
The research works herein challenge the border and do their part to dismember the wall between territories of the authentic truths of the silenced and to give this scholarship the audience
it deserves. --Souxie Q
“Why am I compelled to write?...Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me....I write because life does not
appease my appetites and anger....To dispel the myths
that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul....Finally, I write becasue I'm scared
of writing, but I'm more scared of not writing”
—Gloria Anzaldua
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