Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Andy Garcia, Cubano



Tip of the sombrero to Mark Dery, Textmex correspondent extraordinaire, for the skinny on this one!

Gustavo Arellano on Illegal Aliens!



Click for the full piece! Órale!

Opposite? My all-time fave "Mexican" "alien."

Old Navy's Mexican Mannequins


Readers of my Ethnic Mannequins/Obscene Machine Graduate Seminar blog will be well familiar with my fetish when it comes to the ersatz human--so look what comes in with the newspaper this weekend, a Spanish-language circular for Old Navy featuring, literally, ethnic, "Mexican" mannequins. More on this in Eyegiene.

Without Category: Donald Duck


Even Ariel Dorfman's and Armand Mattelart's How to Read Donald Duck did NOT prepare me to grapple semiotically with this comic book ad; more shortly.