The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog: Toni Morrison and Crystal Gayle would be turning over in their graves (if they were dead)... Or, ojos castaños=bad, blue eyeballs=good!

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Toni Morrison and Crystal Gayle would be turning over in their graves (if they were dead)... Or, ojos castaños=bad, blue eyeballs=good!

From the textmex obsessed imagination of Marc García-Martínez

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Labels: " facsimiles, aesthetics, animated ethnic bodies, brown is down, eye object, eyegiene, eyes, making brown white, mechanical eye, photoshop, racialized representation, Self-Loathing, semiotics

Talk about "eyegiene"! This takes it! I have muy orgullo for my dark brown eyes...my Raza eyes, if you pardon the relative orthodoxy. Perhaps I'm being a bit too dramatic here...maybe a tad sensitive, but I'm guessing that trustees of shallow outward appearance, or disciples of the Mein Kampf school of biology and pigment might be inspired by this troubling news post here:

New Laser Surgery Technique Can Turn Brown Eyes Blue

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Toni Morrison and Crystal Gayle would be turning over in their graves (if they were dead)... Or, ojos castaños=bad, blue eyeballs=good!

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