Borders can also be conceptual. For example, borders between social classes or races. Gloria Anzaldúa's conceptualization of borders goes beyond national borders. Anzaldúa states: "The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab form, it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture." Anzaldúa also refers to the border as being a locus of rupture and resistance; fragmented.Borderlands. Border artists include Ana Mendieta, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco, and Mona Hatoum.
