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The "Autopsy of a Rat" chapter of Tex[t]-Mex on the fastest mouse in all Mexico, Speedy Gonzales, is more than a hatchet job on Warner Brothers and their animators--if anything, it was written as a meditation on the matrix of race and entertainment in the U.S. mass culture.
Freleng was a talented artist and an avid artisan of racialized subject-effects--some of this is on display below in a YouTube broadcast version of Clean Pastures from 1936:
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