The flan revolution: A rhetoric of border lands, border walls, and border epistemologies

The US-Mexico border has been fraught with complication from its inception, particularly in South Texas. The movement of people in and out of each country has been tied to various political movements and acts. To that end, this thesis views the recent construction of the border wall in the Rio Grande Valley as a site of rhetorical analysis. The result of this analysis will be a disentanglement of the various power relations and forces at play, whether they be economic, social, racial, governmental, etc. Additionally, I argue that abstracting sites and acts such as these can help bring students an awareness of complex and often uncomfortable subjects of racism and ideology. Finally, I will emphasize the use of decolonial and border approaches through the narrative structure of this document