Where Curriculum Meets Community: Teaching Borderlands Shakespeare in San Antonio

The conflict between colonial power and decolonial resistance is not unique to San Antonio, Texas, but it is especially palpable in this predominantly Mexican American city whose hybrid culture has been shaped by layers of colonization. First known as the Yanaguana, so named by the original inhabitants for its life-giving waters, San Antonio was and continues to be home to the Payaya, Coahuilteca, Lipan Apache, and Comanche, as well as other diasporic peoples from across the Americas. As a city in the Texas–Mexico Borderlands, San Antonio is home to what Gloria E. Anzaldúa describes as a “border culture” that