Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012 from the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog!

A big tip of the sombrero to all our regular visitors! To celebrate, the lauded opening minutes from Orson Welles's remarkable TOUCH OF EVIL:

Arizona Versus Mexicanicity! via GAWKER.COM...

Cool Sweet Groovy Mexican Jazz: Xicanosmosis, Tino Contreras-style | via boingboing.net

A select Walmart demographic, true to form, bringin' some good ol' holiday cheer and bigotry against Mexicans...

A story on a few 12th-hour Walmart Christmas Eve shoppers venting their frustrations and anger at an impatient store management...and then going on to blame (surprise, surprise) Mexicans for their last-minute lot in life. I suppose the year 2011 will close as it began, with more zany and sad racial bigotry, antipathy, misunderstanding, frustration, and blame, etc., in store for 2012! Check it out with this link below:

“Did you not have enough Mexicans working for you, you gotta pay white people more money or something?”

Shakespeare and Mexicans: Washington DC Theatre Edition...

HUFFINGTON POST STORY

WASHINGTON POST STORY

New Rita Hayworth Glossy Auction

@ Heritage Auctions...

Billy the Kid! Outlaw! The Chicana Connection...

Mexican Action Figures! Xicanosmotic Toy Department!

Another Setback for the Neo-Fascist Mexican Loathers: South Carolina Edition

Another Chapter in the History of Race in the Americas | Ad Department

tip of the sombrero to GAWKER...

Arizona Hates Mexicans (and Black Bears!)....

The Bluest Eye, Mexico-style... | Racism in the Americas

FROM THE ORIGINAL YOUTUBE POSTING:

Este video fue realizado por 11.11 Cambio Social como parte de la campaña "Racismo en México". Se hizo un trabajo de investigación con niños y niñas mexicanos/as, replicando el experimento con niños/as y muñecos diseñado por Kenneth y Mammie Clark en los años treinta en EUA, que se ha llevado a cabo en varios países del mundo.

Aquí se muestra parte de los resultados y los niños y las niñas que aparecen en este video reflejan las respuestas de la mayoría de niños/as que fueron entrevistados/as.

Dada la complejidad de la temática, se realizó un Taller de Racismo con los/as niños/as y que participaron y sus familias, para generar un espacio de reflexión y contención de las emociones generadas en este intercambio.

Twitter: @RacismoenMexico
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Más información: racismo.mexico@gmail.com

Thanks to MALAS superstar graduate student, Mali Hinesly, for bringing this to my eyes!

Get a Signed Copy of Tex[t]-Mex for the Holidays!

{Special Signed Edition} Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America

Playing "Texans vs Mexicans" on SOUTH PARK

Thanks to Felipe Quetzalcoatl for the link! Video below!!!!

Be a Bandit Hoodie!

Thanks to the grand Poobah of Chicana/o Studies at CSU Fullerton, Alexandro Gradilla, for sending me this stereotype-laden hoodie from Dillards.com!

Found!!!! MEXTASY and TEXTMEX, Whole Again...

UPS lost a third of the traveling Tex[t]-Mex show called MEXTASY last year!  This year, today, guess what turned up back at the Laredo Center for the Arts?  The lost show!  Wow!

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Xicanosmosis, Star Wars-style

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ArPAYASO's Days Are Numbered! NEW YORK TIMES.... BREAKING

New Rita Hayworth Wallpaper for the Holidays! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Feliz Navidad, Merry Kwanzaa, Surly Festivus, from the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog!

Just Catching Up with Gustavo Arellano! Sponge Bob Zapatista! ¡Que viva!

CRUZANDO FRONTERAS/Crossing the Border: Films and Videos by Women

Over 21 years ago the border arts renaissance was alive and well in San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California; here's a poster from my personal collection from the CRUZANDO FRONTERAS film festival...  As with most images on the galleryblog, click to enlarge...

DEBT: The First 5000 Years

Thanks to Rebel Dos for turning me on to Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber 

Lupe Velez Sighting | Via HERITAGE Auctions

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and, as a bonus! Rita Hayworth

Death of a Mexican Animation Talent...

Eva Longoria VERSUS Newt Gingrich: ROUND ONE

The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog What-NOT-to-Buy-for-Christmas! Item Uno: Josefina from AMERICAN GIRL

Of course, I have treated with the phenomena of marketed ersatz Mexicans before in Tex[t]-Mex:

Ricardo Montalbán: Tex[t]-Mex Hunk of the Month December 2011

A new poster in development for the upcoming Mextasy gigs in San Antonio and Boulder!  More info to come.....    The image below is a publicity still from MY MAN AND I.

More on Ricardo!

Have you heard the rumors? MEXTASY returning to San Antonio the 3rd Week of January!

Don't listen to the rumors!

Bandido! Big Bold BLASTING!

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LOS LOBOS! At the Belly-Up, Solana Beach Tonight!

they just flat-out ROCK!

Dream Act Martyr in South Texas: RIP Joaquin Luna, Jr, de Mission, Texas

A Treasury of "Mexican" Pulp Fiction Art Wonders

Hit the calavera for more...


all via http://grapefruitmoongallery.com

Pedro Infante is in the [white] House! (...sort of): A quick post on Aural-Sonic Miscegenations!

Came upon this LP record quite by accident on Google images. You'll appreciate it for its decidedly odd Leave it to Beaver meets La Bamba undertones. Needless to say, there must be a copy still out there...I'll check Amoeba Music in San Francisco and get back to you. Until then, soak in all the cross-cultural, racial harmony, and curiously caucasoidal vibes this anomalous little artifact seems to emit!

Re-imagining the Way We Image "Brazil" | Mark Dery Inteviews Gunter Axt

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More Artifacts from the Caucasian Bestiary: San Diego Lawn Jockey Edition

They are infamous and documented--common throughout the United States, especially the South: the Lawn Jockey.

However, there is one in San Diego--in Kensington to be exact--that catches the eye and, as such, merits entry into the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog Caucasian Bestiary.  I had my camera with me the other day and snagged some suggestive shots!

Yet Another Frightening Entry in the Caucasian Bestiary of the Ersatz Human

Gustavo Arellano! The New Editor in Chief of OCWeekly!

and a winsome PBS talking head!

Watch American Voices: Gustavo Arellano on the 2012 Latino vote on PBS. See more from NEED TO KNOW.

Tragic Rita! Tragic Maria! Tragic Lupe! A Trifecta of Latina Tragedies

Click the images for the instalinks...

BORDER FENCE TO BE EXTENDED TO HAWAII (not really, but one could easily imagine it...)

The Border | The Verge | The End | The Frontier | La Frontera

John McCain Laughs at the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog! Undocumented Immigrants are, apparently, PYROMANIACS...

We have had a good time skewering John "Mexicans Love Fires" McCain for his outrageous speech acts--when it comes to "Mexicans," McCain, while not in the Lou Dobbs Hall of Fame category, has, at the very least, been curious when it comes to the folks just south of his home state.  But now the LA Times chimes with the story below!  NewsTaco, what do we do!? Hit the picture for the link!

UC DAVIS "PUBLIC SAFETY" TRAINED BY SYRIA's SECRET POLICE!!! Follow updates via BOINGBOING.NET

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Rita Hayworth, aka Margarita Dolores Cansino | New Archive of Photos

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