Borderland ApocryphaThe 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the MexicanAmerican War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and long lasting traumas. This pattern of state sanctioned violence committed towards communities of color continues to the present day. Borderland Apocrypha centers around the collective histories of these terrors, excavating the traumas born of turbulence at borderlands. In this debut collection,