Friday, September 04, 2009

Sociological Images Posting on Bandits, Tequila, Saucy Latinas and More

¡Venta, Venta! ¡Venga, Venga! Amazon.com TEXTMEX Book Sale


For some reason, Jeff Bezos and company at Amazon.com have lowered the price of TEXTMEX, my UT Press volume that documents "hallucinations" of "Mexicans" in American mass culture, for 14 dollars and one cent! Get them while they're hot! Hit the image above to see the details and scarf down some latinized cultural studies for a song.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Queen's Another One Bites the Dust, Mariachi-style or Xicanosmotic Musica


Thanks to George Luna-Peña for the link--hit the image and you will be instantly transported to a world touched by the fires of XicanOsmosis, a world where Freddie Mercury and Banda live together in bliss!

Press Release: Rosario Castellanos Panel, CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, August 27, 2009

A big abrazo to Pablo Jaime Sáinz who passed along this press release from the CECUT, Centro Cultural de Tijuana with info on the Rosario Castellanos panel last Thursday!


Xicanosmosis Mexicali Style

While the "naco" slurs on this site are distracting, there is something uncanny and xicanosmotic about this Louis Vuitton home allegedly in Mexicali. Click the house for the original posting--here's where I found it.

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