Bordertown

The book is titled "Bordertown" and regards sympathetically for the way los tejanos have been marginalized in the borderlands. It's an artbook, relying on design, montage and photographs to convey their rhetoric. But as well respected it is visually, there is come clever use of language as well. They set the tone for the rest of the book, not with the opening paragraph, but with a hand written blurb on the second. It clearly declares their book notjust as art, but also as ethos propaganda.

Yo Tengo un pistole

Con manago de marfil

para matar todos los gringos

Qui viennen por ferrocarril!

(I have a pistol

With a marbel handle

With which to kill all the Americans

Who come by railroad)

-Folk tune popular in Chihuahua durring the

Mexican revolution

and the Mexican american war.