as in border
a region along the dividing line between two countries
I grew up on the borderland, so I speak both languages
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Horwitz is a filmmaker from the Southwest borderlands, whose work navigates the impact of militarization and xenophobia on the region’s inhabitants.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
The film is set in the Rio Grande Valley (puro 956, cuh!), a borderland slice of South Texas where the Mexican and the American meet, mingle and fuse.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
The Mellon Foundation, the US’s largest philanthropic supporter of arts and humanities, has launched a $25 million fund that will support arts organizations based in the US-Mexico borderlands.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
The old country house at the center of this disquieting novel stands at the edge of a different borderland, as French explores themes of identity and doppelgängers.
—The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
The film is set in the Rio Grande Valley (puro 956, cuh!), a borderland slice of South Texas where the Mexican and the American meet, mingle and fuse.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
The Mellon Foundation, the US’s largest philanthropic supporter of arts and humanities, has launched a $25 million fund that will support arts organizations based in the US-Mexico borderlands.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
The old country house at the center of this disquieting novel stands at the edge of a different borderland, as French explores themes of identity and doppelgängers.
—The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
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