The comments on the cover of this trade edition of a limited edition artist collaborative book project follow. " In a series of beautiful and jarring montages, the artists tell of the colonial conquest, cultural transformations, linguistic admixtures and economic interdependence that have formed the Americas...Rice's masterful typographic compositions orchestrate the many voices, weaving texts from Gomez-Pena's performances through and around the visual play of Chagoya's rhetorically sophisiticated collages, offering a critical analysis of border politics through a density of historical references and icons of popular culture."The book is bound like the ancient codex whose pages can be navigated as one continuous extended frieze. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book reflects the "multimedia art project that uses high technology and lowbrow kitsch; it encourages will-intentioned dialogue between different ethnic groups and razas as well as exposes some of the trashiest jokes and ethnic slurs found on mid-America's minds." The performances documented in this book deal with the low esteem that Americans place on the the role of Mexicans in American society. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.