The Meaning of Borders
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.26.02 | 11:47 PM ET
Richard Rodriguez and Ruben Martinez discuss borders and the significance of cultural mixing in interviews with public radio’s The Savvy Traveler. “We are much less innocent about borders—about the durability of lines between countries,” says Rodriguez, an essayist for the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and author of the new book Brown: The Last Discovery of America. “Growing fearful about that lack of durability, we realize the world has been very complicated long before we began to notice it.”