Spicy Adventure and Spicy Western Comics Embody the High Renaissance Moment in the History Mexican Stereotypes.

{source} more info here: http://www.philsp.com/mags/spicy_western_stories.html

MEXTASY in the MIDWEST!!! Guillermo Nericcio García y William A. Nericcio are Invading the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 5:30pm @ La Casa Cultural Latina!!! Help Spread la Palabra

UPDATE: March 3, 2014! Great News! Mextasy @ the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's LA CASA CULTURAL LATINA has been extended for three weeks through March 21, 2014! The show is free and on exhibition in the main rooms of LA CASA! Gracias Gracias Gracias to all the fine gente/folks in the snowy fields of the Midwest for extending such a warm welcome to MEXTASY.

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From Tex[t]-Mex to Mextasy to Eyegiene

Televisually Supercharged Hallucinations of 'Mexicans' in our Digital Humanities-laced, Technosexually Voyeuristic Tomorrow(s)

In a wide-ranging talk that builds on the work found in  Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of“Mexicans” in America (2007), but that also incorporates the traveling exhibition (and pop-up rascuache museum entitled Mextasy), and looks forward to my new project entitled Eyegiene: Permutations of Subjectivity in the Televisual Age of Sex and Race, I will try to immerse students, faculty, and community members from the University of Illinois in some of the crazy story of metamorphosis that forms the history of Tex[t]-Mex, what began as a response to the laughter of racist students on the East Coast snickering at the concept of "Mexican Intellectuals," has ended up as a career-long sojourn, an Odyssey-like conquest, to track down and vivisect Latina/o stereotypes in American mass culture.  More recently, the work has evolved, concerning itself more less with issues of ethnocentrism and race and more with what I call technosexual "subject-effects," watchfully surveilling the evolution of human entertainment as it concerns itself less with "the other" and more with the "OS" (think here of Spike Jonze's awesome new movie Her).  There too, however, the massive hangover from European and American genocide, slavery, and racism, will continue to evolve and morph, finding new manifestations in the digital age of smartphones.  Ultimately, this is a lecture about metamorphosis, a movement in my work from an outright focus on deleterious stereotypes into a brave new world filled with the hedonistic pleasures of mextasy.  This, then, is a lecture that tries to capture our contemporary ontology in flux, from "I think therefore I am" to "I see, therefore I must record and broadcast, in order to be--Descartes credo reborn and re-imagined for the high age, the sacred moment of the "selfie."

All Mextasy event/lectures are all free/gratis!

Some prints, new and old, for the show...

Original Posting February 25, 2014

Guillermo Nericcio García y William A. Nericcio 

are Invading the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 

on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 5:30pm 

@ La Casa Cultural Latina!!! 

Help Spread la Palabra!

as with all the images on this blog, click to enlarge

Click the poster and watch it grow!

poster for the mextasy exhibition, u of illinois urbana-champaign

Robert Rodriguez's "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" Coming in August 2014 (Includes Mextasized JESSICA ALBA Print for the Boise State MEXTASY Lecture & Exhibition)

For more on the movie click the first image:

Here's a mextasized print I whipped up

for the Boise State Mextasy/Eyegiene lecture

and exhibition coming up in April--it features

the rad photography of Rico Torres!

New Look, New Logo, Changed Name! The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog becomes Tex[t]-Mex!

It has been close to 8 years that this blog has lived, and nearing our 1,000,000 page load, it seemed the right time for a facelift!  Thanks to Jeremy Hurd from whose Flickr feed I lifted the cool painted luchador backdrop!  And thanks to all of you for making Tex[t]-Mex what it is and will always be, your one stop site for snarky reflections on the miasma of Latina/o stereotypes painting the cultural spaces of the Americas and beyond! You can also follow our exploits here on Facebook and here on Twitter.

Pat Boone, Trini Lopez, Speedy Gonzales, and a Great Hit from the Sixties

original posting, April 5, 2007--updated February 21, 2014


Raul, an SDSU Latin American Studies graduate student in my e725 Ethnic Lit and Film seminar, enters the Galleryblog with a quick post/complement for Tex[t]-Mex's chapter on Speedy Gonzales:

To: memo@sdsu.edu Subject: Speedy Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:07:44 -0500 X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI From: Raul I think this would be great for the tex[t]-mex blog and maybe the second edition of the book if can include it: "In 1959 and 1960 Pat Boone continued to sell many records, although his production of top ten songs slowed down a bit. Some of his songs during this period included With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair and Twixt Twelve and Twenty. In 1961 he came back with Moody River, which was to be his fifth and final number one song. His final top forty song was a novelty record, Speedy Gonzalez in 1962. The female backing voice on this song was Robin Ward, and it peaked at number six."

The lyrics speak for themselves! ack!  Have a listen if you can stomach it!   

...and Here's some backstory on the song.

The Lyrics...

Speedy Gonzales
Mancini/Nicola
It was a moonlit night in old Mexico.
I walked alone between some old adobe haciendas.
Suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl.

You better come home, Speedy Gonzales
Away from tannery row
Stop all a your a-drinkin'
With that floozy named Flo
Come on home to your adobe
And slap some mud on the wall
The roof is leakin' like a strainer
There's loads a roaches in the hall

Speedy Gonzales, why don't cha come home?
Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

"Hey, Rosita - I hafta go shopping downtown for my mother
She needs some tortillas and chili peppers."

Your doggy's gonna have a puppy
And we're runnin' outta Coke
No enchiladas in the icebox
And the television's broke
I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt
I smelled some perfume in your ear
Well if you're gonna keep on messin'
Don't bring your business back a-here

Mmm, Speedy Gonzales, why don't cha come home?
Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

"Hey, Rosita - come quick
Down at the cantina they giving green stamps with tequila!!"

Writer/s: MANCINI, HENRY NICOLA
Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, EMI Music Publishing

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St. George, with George Lopez on FX.... Pondering Mexican Stereotypes and More...

Something new this way comes from George Lopez (with Danny Trejo); here's the new trailer:

A new print for the Illinois Mextasy Show Featuring Gustavo Arellano of ASK A MEXICAN Fame ( and Infamy!)...

Click the image to get 'up close and personal' with the Ken Norton of Journalistic Pugilism!

Mextasy/Eyegiene in Illinois!

Guillermo Nericcio García y William A. Nericcio Invade University of Illinois Urbana Champaign http://t.co/h5Gb3iRrKm pic.twitter.com/jFvizzG5E7

— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) February 8, 2014

Lupe Velez in HELL HARBOR (1930)

Mexican star Lupe Velez stars in this pre-code Hollywood tale bathed in 'swarthy' awesomeness! Here's more on the film from ROTTEN TOMATOES:

Movie Info

Even allowing for the comparative freedom of the pre-Production Code years, 1930's Hell Harbor was pretty strong meat for its time. The story is set on a remote Caribbean island, entirely populated by descendants of Sir Henry Morgan's pirate crew. Morgan's brutish great-great-grandson Henry Morgan (Gibson Gowland) intends to shower himself with gold and to that end forces his daughter Anita (Lupe Velez) into a marriage with despicable moneylender Joseph Horngold (Jean Hersholt). Coming toAnita's rescue is shipwrecked American sailor Bob Wade (John Holland), whose presence sparks an unchecked riot on the island. The film's most chilling scene finds Morgan. Director Henry King also produced the film through his own Inspiration Pictures Corporation. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Unrated, 1 hr. 5 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure,Romance, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Henry King

 ...and a clip...
 


 ...and the full film in hd!

Another Chapter in the History of Mexican Stereotypes: 'Thank God the Sleeping, Lazy, Drunk "Mexican" Overcame the Lecherous, Debauched, Scary "Mexican" ' 1941 Edition

'Spicy Western Stories - August '41 (Culture, 1941) Contents include E. Hoffman Price {source}

Yet another double-crossing "Mexican" of Yore! Spicy Western Comics--Chroniclers of 'Swarthy' Nastiness!

Spicy Western Stories - May '39 (Culture, 1939) Condition: FN-. 

Cover by H. J. Ward. Stories by Laurence Donovan and E. Hoffman Price.  

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Spring 2014 Robotic Erotic Electric Booklist: A New Experimental Cultural Studies Primer Class @ SDSU

This new edition of Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS from Norton is just one of the striking anti-textbooks from my undergraduate class at SDSU this Spring 2014: Robotic Erotic Electric!

See the rest of the required readings by clicking the links below!

How in God's Name Did I Miss THIS!!! The Alamo, Chupacabras, AND Erik Estrada! Sweet Mother of God, a Xicanosmotic Epic!

 More on the film here and here...

As a self-proclaimed scholar of chupacabra I am ashamed to have missed this cinematic gem!

Gustavo Arellano and Lalo Alcaraz Working for Fox! What's Next? Limbaugh and Coulter on MSNBC? via Pocho.com

click the image for the rest of the story...

New Grunge SANTO Backsplash

Mariachi Flor de Toloache!

Cool all-female mariachi band out of NYC... Mariachi Flor de Toloache

Textmex/Mextasy/Eyegiene Lecture at UCLA!!!

It Was Close and Paula Dean is Angry but TED CRUZ has been Selected as the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog PENDEJO OF THE YEAR for 2013! Felicidades

Just a quick thank you for all the visitors and comments in 2013 to all my loyal Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog followers (and lurkers).

I am happy to announce that TED CRUZ, pseudo-Tejano neo-fascist from my home state has been voted in as PENDEJO OF THE YEAR, beating out Paula Dean, Phyllis Schlafly and a host of other pendejas/os!

Cruz, a posing darling of the right-of-right, self-righteous ignorant set in Washington, had quite a 2013! Congratulations!

¿Who Who Who Deserves the Title???!!!! The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog's 2013 Pendeja/o of the Year Award!!!!

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All, I need help!

I just can't decide who deserves the coveted 2013 PENDEJA/O of the Year Award from the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog! Pick from one of these eight glorious pendejas/os and let me know below--feel free to write one in if your fave 2013 pendeja/o is missing)! Vote below or go to our Facebook page and leave your vote/comments there!!!

Phyllis "Latinas/os don't understand the Bill of Rights" Schlafly http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-voting-was-close-but-tally-is-in.html

Edith "Blacks/Mexicans more prone to crime" Jones
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/06/judge-edith-jones-vies-for-july-2013.html

Jason "Non-whites not as smart as whites" Richwine
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/05/may-pendejo-of-month-jason-richwine.html

Cathrynn "Rape Victims are Felons" Brown 
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/01/cathrynn-brown-new-mexico.html

Pete "I can't even look at you Obama" Sessions
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-votes-are-in-rep-pete-sessions-r.html

Chris "Gay sex is a sin" Broussard"
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/04/chris-broussard-of-espn-on-nbas-jason.html

Sean "Obama like Trayvon because he 'smoked pot' and did 'a little blow'" Hannity http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/07/sean-hannity-july-2013-textmex.html

Paula "Samboburger" Dean
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/06/cmon-whats-wrong-with-fixin-us-sambo.html

Feliz Navidad and Merry Christmas from the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog

Originally published: 12/22/12 3:46 PM Pacific Standard Time

Wishing you and yours 

a stereotype-free 2014!!!!

Your gift?  The voice

of Speedy Gonzales, Mel Blanc,

crooning a navidad classic,

"The Hat I Got for Christmas is too Big."*

*note: the bizarre lyrics of the

song merely confirm the argument

in Tex[t]-Mex regarding "Mexicans"

as synecdoche for a sordid sort

of sexual potentiality--but I will

hold this comment in reserve

for the rest of the holidays.