The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog: 23 October 2011

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Of guns, bigotry, and xenophobia—the (not-so-lone) Texas Ranger rides again!

Be sure to read this news story here BEFORE you've had your lunch today. It is sure to put a bad taste in your mouth, and will no doubt stand to be the clear front-runner in the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog's ~~chingado~~...uh, I mean, ~~gabacho cabrón~~...oops, that is to say, pendejo of the week award:

Texas gun training facility bars non-Christians, Obama voters, Muslims, "liberals," and socialists from gun training

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Mextasy and Tex[t]-Mex on the Road @ the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada | "Bandit, Succubus, Gigolo, Maid, & Fiend: 20th and 21st Century Latina/o Bodies in the Imagination of the Americas"

click to make explode (or, at the very least, make big)...

Here's the promo:

Bandit, Succubus, Gigolo, Maid, & Fiend
20th and 21st Century Latina/o Bodies in the Imagination of the Americas

William A. Nericcio
University of Guelph, October 27, 2011 | Thursday

A brief multimedia presentation examining dominant trends in the representation of Latinas and Latinos in American popular culture--from Hollywood to Madison Avenue, specific and damaging visions of Latina/o subjectivity have infected the synapses of Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans alike--these "ethnic mannequins" (Speedy Gonzales, Charo, the Frito Bandito, etc) some to dominate consciousness, leading to the renaissance on racialized hatred currently en vogue in the U.S. from New York to California, from Arizona to Georgia. If Lou Dobbs says that Mexicans are "diseased" and John McCain contends (with a straight) face the illegal immigrants are starting forest fires, and Rush Limbaugh tells his listeners to tell "Mexicans" to go back to their country, what is the result? Research would seem to suggest these collective efforts have led to a resurgence of anti-Latino hate and hate crimes at the very moment demographically that the lands of Uncle Sam are more decidedly Latino/a. The presentation will feature excerpts from Tex[t]-Mex, Eyegiene, the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog and art from Mextasy.

another poster version, that does not steal

from the one and only robert frank appears next

The day after the Guelph gig, I am lecturing at the University of Western Ontario--a draft of the poster here follows...

Here are some notes for the GUELPH LECTURE...

lou dobbs

http://textmex.blogspot.com/2011/09/lou-dobbs-in-venezuela-just-kidding.html

more here

eyegiene piece on cristina rivera garza

izel vargas piece

http://textmex.blogspot.com/2010/02/essay-on-izel-vargas-now-available-via.html

http://textmex.blogspot.com/2009/01/xicanosmosis-semiotic-visions-of-izel.html

new GIRL IN A COMA video @ ROLLINGSTONE.COM

just a quick reminder to new readers of the galleryblog, that pictures on this site either blow up into big high-res images OR, as is the case here, they instalink, via the magic of the world wide web, to some delicious or outrageous website... girl in a coma, ROCKS!

gotta run, off to Canada! yours, on the web, Bill Nericcio...