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In this paper I present an idiosyncratic historical and theoretical overview of visual cultural hybridity beginning with interpretations of the collages of Hannah Höch and her Dada associates, move to the cyborgs of popular visual culture, cross “borderland” hybrid culture in the works of Mexican-American Enrique Chagoya, and conclude with the millions of digital hybrid artworks being constructed on the Internet. A proposal for a pedagogy of visual cultural hybridity is presented through classroom projects inspired by Chagoya's artist books, American school children's artworks in which they examine their multiple identities through metaphorically placing themselves in artworks, and through hybrid images from my own journals and artist-books. A pedagogy centering on hybrid forms of visual culture provides a means for juxtaposing diverse and often contradictory ideas, envisioning new human identities, imagining new worlds, and extending conceptions of human potential.