LRR: Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border, Gregory L. Cuéllar

Gregory L. Cuéllar talks about his book Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border: A Borderland Hermeneutic (Routledge, 2020). We talk about the way the sacred is weaponsised by elite powers to shape social reality, the way it grants permanence to the negating of the inherent sacred worth of the black and brown bodies of those approaching or crossing the border, while sacralizing the Anglo-American project of colonisation, violence, and manifest destiny. We talk about how – counter intuitively – appealing to the sacredness of the other can provide a way toward a healing strategy, and how this book seeks to “attend in a healing way to the recurring, open wounds of postcoloniality at the US-Mexico border” – wounds that are, for the author, personal.

Lecture at Ithaca College - Caring for the Sacred Other - 4/13/21

A conversation hosted by Office of Religious and Spiritual Life at Ithaca College and Houghton College with Dr. Gregory Cuéllar, co-founder of Arte de Lágrimas: Refugee Artwork Project. Using drawings from children released from detention centers on the U.S./Mexico border, Dr. Cuéllar explores how to reclaim the sacredness of the Other in the borderlands.

Presbyterian Border Outreach Event

Rev. Dr. Gregory L. Cuéllar and Mrs. Nohemi Cuéllar "Arte de Lágrimas: Refugee Artwork Project" Presbyterian Border Region Outreach Event "Gospel Hospitality and the Kingdom of God"