Don't Touch That Dial! Stay Tuned for #BrownTV !!!

"Don't touch that dial! Stay tuned for the magic of #BrownTV!!!" Next generation cultural studies focused on Latinas,...

Posted by William Nericcio on Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Carolina Miranda on the Oscars in the LA Times and More ...

@cmonstah ... great column! https://t.co/1jfeFWBYuJ

J. Lindenfield “If you remember one thing from last night’s #oscars it should be that LA displaced an unhoused community so that they could pretend to care about them by giving a movie about unhoused people best picture.”

— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) May 3, 2021

Calling All Hosts! Calling All Hosts! New Purveyors of the Mextasy Traveling Circus of Desmadres (Rasquache, Inc) Being Pursued!

#mextasy, a traveling #circusofdesmadres, seeking hosts for future invasions at your local school, college, university, museum, gallery, or library! learn more here: https://t.co/MssdoqMg6U

The Mextasy Traveling Circus of Desmadres is an itinerant version of #textmex + #browntv! pic.twitter.com/93j5QXBl6c

— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) May 3, 2021

Polyester Mexicanus or Dacron Dreams of Mexico

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What is Mextasy!? An Introduction to the Pop-Up "Circus of Desmadres" -- A Traveling Exhibition Coming Soon to a Gallery, Museum, or University Near You!

Updated October 21, 2020 | Last updated April 30, 2021

Mextasy: Seductive Hallucinations of Latina/o Mannequins Prowling the American Unconscious is a traveling pop-up or gallery-based art show/exhibit based on the work of William "Memo" Nericcio and Guillermo Nericcio García. The traveling exhibition was originally curated by Leticia Gómez Franco for Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, California, and Rachel Freyman Brown, South Texas College, McAllen, Texas. Upcoming shows are UC Riverside (virtual via Zoom, thx Covid!) and the University of Detroit, Mercy (eventually). Recent exhibitions include shows at Iowa State University and the Nepantla Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, Washington--other noteworthy gigs include performances at Northwestern University, Wabash College, California State University, San Bernardino, and Franklin & Marshall College.

Mextasy both reflects on and expands upon Nericcio's 2007 American Library Association award-winning book with UT Press, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the Mexican in America. In addition to racist artifacts from American mass culture (the bread and butter of Uncle Sam's unconscious and the backstory for the resurgence in anti-Mexican, anti-Latina/o peoples presently), the show also features works that is "xicanosmotic," that is, works by Mexican-American artists where the delicious fusion of the Mexican/US borderlands/frontera is writ large as in the deliriously delicious artistic tracings of Raul Gonzalez III, Perry Vasquez, Rafaella Suarez, and Izel Vargas.

Visitors to this page interested in having MEXTASY invade their local gallery/university of choice should contact us here.

"Holy SciFi, Batman!" Wow!!! #Mextasy Style 2001: A Space Odyssey!!!

Holy science fiction #mextasy + #eyegiene ... Mexico lobby cards for 2001: A Space...

Posted by William Nericcio on Monday, April 19, 2021

Two Mexicans Walk Into the Ivory Tower and Do a Live-Stream: We're TALKING #BrownTV

SDSU Press proud to co-sponsor this Latinx Studies event today with MALAS, the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and...

Posted by San Diego State University Press on Thursday, April 8, 2021

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Thursday, April 8, 2021 || Live-streamed Public Lecture by Fede Aldama and Memo Nericcio || Talking #BrownTV

What are you up to next Thursday, April 8, 2021? What am I talking about? I'm Talking #BrownTV!

Decoding Latinx Dreams/Nightmares of Speedy Gonzales, Pepe Le Pew, the Frito Bandito, Breaking Bad & Narcos @ProfessorLatinx + @eyegiene

via Zoom https://t.co/tuq7x2ub6K pic.twitter.com/OA6ZKEHkd1

— talking #browntv (@browntv12) April 3, 2021

#repost The Book Trailer for TALKING #BrownTV by Frederick "Fede" Aldama and William "Memo" Nericcio

 

Forgotten Latina Bombshells: Jo Raquel Tejada, aka Raquel Welch

Original Posting, January 18. 2008 | UPDATED March 27, 2021

There were a lot of sins committed in the production of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in Amerca--sins of omission! One of the biggest screwups of the first edition (2007, UTPress) is leaving out a discussion Raquel Welch, San Diego State alum and former La Jollan, who, for some, made the late 20th century worth living. The wikipedia bio on Welch, né Jo Raquel Tejada, is Mormon-like in its details:

Welch, oldest of three children, was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Josepha Sarah (née Hall) and Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo.[1] Her father, who immigrated from La Paz, Bolivia, was an aerospace engineer of Spanish-Castilian descent[2]; her mother was an Irish-American.[3] Welch is a relative of the only female president of Bolivia,
original posting: 11/25/09
repost: September 21, 2011

Lydia Gueiler Tejada.[citation needed] In 1942, Armando Tejada was transferred to San Diego, California. The family moved to the suburb of La Jolla, where Welch grew up. She took dancing lessons as a child, and was winning beauty pageants by the time she was a teenager. Among her titles were "Miss Photogenic," "Miss La Jolla," "Miss Contour," and "Miss San Diego." In 1957, she was named "Miss Fairest of the Fair" at the San Diego County Fair. After attending La Jolla High School, she entered San Diego State College on a theater arts scholarship. The following year she married a high school sweetheart, James Welch.

Welch became synonymous with televised and cinematic sexuality about the time my voice began to change and hair started sprouting on my upper lip--so needless to say she plays a role in my development. But she also plays a dynamic role in the evolution of the Latina bombshell, injecting a Vietnam era openness and power that changed the trope forever. More on this soon.

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Here is a boingboing.net find of Welch in a groovy dance sequence from a 1970s television special, "Raquel Welch." According the Welchi/cinephile who posted it on YouTube, Ms. Tejada's in Mexico, dancing in front of the "Ruta de la Amistad public sculpture project at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City."




Mireya Navarro's 2002 NY Times piece on Tejada/Welch covers most of the angles on this tale in the back history of the uncloseting of Latinas in Hollywood:

June 11, 2002
Raquel Welch Is Reinvented As a Latina; A Familiar Actress Now Boasts Her Heritage

By MIREYA NAVARRO
On ''American Family,'' the PBS television series about a Mexican-American family in East Los Angeles, now in its first season, Aunt Dora is the drama queen of the family, a passionate, romantic woman who might have become a Hollywood star had she vigorously pursued her acting career. The actress playing Aunt Dora is Raquel Welch, who infuses the role with her familiar sultriness and smoky voice.

Nevertheless the sight of Ms. Welch in that role might bewilder some fans who remember her best for films like ''Fantastic Voyage,'' ''One Million Years B.C.,'' ''Kansas City Bomber'' and ''The Four Musketeers,'' as ''Woman of the Year'' on Broadway and in nightclub acts in Las Vegas. Dora, you see, is a Latina, a title Ms. Welch herself is claiming for the first time after nearly 40 years in show business.

''I'm happy to acknowledge it and it's long overdue and it's very welcome,'' she said in a recent interview at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. ''There's been kind of an empty place here in my heart and also in my work for a long, long time.''

Jo-Raquel Tejada, born in Chicago of a Bolivian father and an American mother, is taking to her heritage with gusto. Not only is she playing Dora as well as the film role of Hortensia in the 2001 romantic farce ''Tortilla Soup,'' she is also strutting her ethnicity in events like the American Latino Media Arts Awards and other public appearances.

''Latinos are here to stay,'' she told her audience at a National Press Club luncheon last month. ''As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.''

As both citizen Raquel and Raquel Welch, sex symbol and pinup girl, Ms. Welch has bridged two eras. She has worked in the Hollywood that made her a blonde and tried to take away her first name as well as in the Hollywood that now considers Latinos hip and pays Jennifer Lopez up to $12 million a picture.

Ms. Welch grew up with a father who tried to assimilate at all costs, even banning Spanish at home. But now, at 61, she is riding the wave of new Latino generations that flaunt their ethnic pride and behave with the confidence of a major demographic force. [more]

Lastly, Raquel Welch also, like Rita Hayworth, (see OldSchool Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog entry for January 17, 2007) has a gnarly and gnarled connection with hair!

update, 11/25/09

Here's Raquel in her screen debut, Robert Sparr's A Swingin' Summer (1965)

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We Believe Everything We See On TV! Cultural Studies in the Digital Age -- a New Critical Anthology Curated by the Fused Imaginations Antonio Rafele, Frederick Aldama, and William Nericcio

We believe everything we see or hear on television! https://t.co/lXzHBRAQYU

— talking #browntv (@browntv12) March 14, 2021

Weighing in on the latest attempts to think about Speedy Gonzales, #mextasy #textmex #speedygonzales

I was holding onto this thinking it was going to be published--but I think that gambit has fallen through. In any event,...

Posted by William Nericcio on Saturday, March 13, 2021

Digital Chicanx Cyborg in the House ...

When I am not out shilling my #mextasy wares I am a professor at SDSU--one of my gigs there? Lead faculty for the Digital Humanities Initiative ... here's the gang: a great group of colleagues and friends:

I love my DH@SDSU peeps! https://t.co/ytJcDcqybU

— Jessica Pressman (@jesspres) March 5, 2021

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Bummed that the dastardly Covid-19 outbreak has dashed your hopes of attending a #Mextasy exhibition? Weep no more--snag...

Posted by Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America on Wednesday, March 3, 2021