Chingona Chicanas de Tejas! #Mextasy, Art History Edition!

Know your history ... here's an amazing artifact on Chicana/Tejana art history from the pen of Shifra Goldman ... https://icaa.mfah.org/s/en/item/847000#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1898%2C-1%2C5904%2C3305

Posted by William Nericcio on Tuesday, December 21, 2021

With Xmas Around the Corner, It's Time to Snap Up a Copy of #Textmex and Talking #BrownTV to Place Under the Tree of Your Fave Mexy Friends and Intimates!

Special Deal on TEXTMEX 

Special Deal on TALKING #BrownTV

If you get your hands on #BrownTV by @ProfessorLatinx & @eyegiene using this link https://t.co/PGnhNSLVw3 don’t be freaked out by the custom wrapping paper‼️ #sketchwn pic.twitter.com/bhpVhXCFzn

— talking #browntv (@browntv12) May 30, 2021

It's not Textmex, Eyegiene, Eyegasm, or #BrownTV ... It's CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE ...

I love adapting old ads from the 1950s to the 1960s for our SDSU Press adverts ... check out the newest one below!

Posted by William Nericcio on Sunday, October 17, 2021

A Veteran's Day Tribute to the Old G William Nericcio, Without Whose Tenacious Survival Skills This Blog Would Never Have Been!

A veteran's day tribute to my dear old dad, William Nericcio of Laredo, Texas--son of Ana Juarez di Nericcio, Laredo,...

Posted by William Nericcio on Thursday, November 11, 2021

Halloween, Just Around the Corner! More "Mexican" Costumes for the Bandit Lover in Thee!

original posting: 8/26/09 6:05 AM

Thank to Simi Valley-based, sage editor John Paul Gutierrez for the original link in the original posting from 2009. Above, a 2021-22 version of the same. Readers of the Textmex Galleryblog know we are dedicated to channeling the evolution of stereotypes from Analog to Televisual to Streaming Digital. This is just one more chapter in the evolving story.

Did you drop onto this page looking for general Halloween fun? 

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Neither #Mextasy nor #Eyegiene -- but it does have my new piece on Comix! CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE, co-edited with Fede Aldama (UT Austin) and Antonio Rafele (Ceaq-Sorbonne & University of Naples, Federico II)

Cutting-edge computer tech was used in the production of CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE by @eyegiene + @ProfessorLatinx + #antoniorafele!

Add it to your Spring ‘22 classes! Over 100 full-color photos! Get it here https://t.co/wiiK0krCen or here https://t.co/myx7kNiAFj pic.twitter.com/zrx5K42V9V

— San Diego State University Press (@SDSUPress) October 4, 2021

Follow #Textmex #Mextasy etc on Twitter! Our Latest Dispatch!

You know you need some #BrownTV!!! By the dynamic duo of @eyegiene and @ProfessorLatinx ... The Academic "Thing with Two Heads" (though both of us want to be the Rosie Grier character!).

More here: https://t.co/gMIczayli7

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— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) September 23, 2021

 

Mextasy in Boise, Idaho! The Circus of Desmadres Invaded Boise State University -- Sneak a Peek!

Some snapshots from the #mextasy pop-up exhibition ... more on the event here: https://www.boisestate.edu/english/home/love-in-the-age-of-hate/

Posted by William Nericcio on Wednesday, September 22, 2021

It was a last minute lollapalooza, but I was able to get the #mextasy circus of desmadres up on the walls at the Hub...

Posted by William Nericcio on Wednesday, September 22, 2021

When I am not out shilling #mextasy and #eyegiene and #browntv, I am teaching comic books ...

They say the camera adds 10lbs--in my case it looks more like 40! ;-0

Our Covid-Era Critical Anthology is Alive and Out in the Wild: CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE !!!

No expense was spared in the R&D of Cultural Studies in the Digital Age, edited by @ProfessorLatinx @eyegiene & #AntonioRafele

Pick up a copy of your own hermetically sealed factory-fresh tome today! From Hyperbole Books https://t.co/9RpVEzGbQU or here https://t.co/Ki7WRCWedN pic.twitter.com/yB8pMXCEyK

— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) August 23, 2021

Time Correction for the Boise State #Mextasy Extravaganza, September 16, 2021, at 6pm! #textmex #eyegiene #roboticeroticelectric

Note Time Change! Start time: 6pm! Everything but the kitchen sink hitting Boise State for a Diez y Seis de Septiembre...

Posted by William Nericcio on Thursday, August 19, 2021

A Shoutout and Abrazo to Latinx Spaces for Reposting this #BrownTV Interview!!! #mextasy

Revisit our Film Editor's conversation with @eyegiene, co-writer of "Talking #browntv", which takes a wide-ranging view of representations of Latinas and Latinos in American TV and film from the 20th century to today. #LatinxFilm

From The Archives:https://t.co/OUwKAVzJie

— Latinx Spaces (@latinxspaces) August 14, 2021

Jim Brown, Raquel Welch (Jo Raquel Tejada), and the History of Interracial Love in American Cinema -- a #textmex #mextasy repost!

Originally published: Feb 25, 2009 | Updated August 4, 2021

Almost on a daily basis, I am made aware of the number of research lapses that took place as I brought Tex[t]-Mex to print! 

My biggest mistake? Not devoting a chapter to 100 Rifles starring Jim Brown, Raquel Tejada (aka SDSU's biggest alumnus {who did not graduate}, aka Raquel Welch), and Burt Reynolds (as "Yaqui Joe, an Indian who robs a bank in order to buy guns for his people who are being savagely repressed by the government.")!

Surprisingly, in 1969, even Roger Ebert couldn't break into a sweat over this opus, directed by Tom Gries. I will try to include a significant chapter on this magnum opus in Eyegiene, currently in preparation for the University of Texas Press. In the meantime, students of stereotypes and feminist studies mavens, might enjoy this clip off of the Daily Motion, culled/edited/recut from the film.

click the image above to be transported to the Daily Motion site

Raquel Welch -100 Rifles (Shower Scene)

Here's the full trailer:

 

 And, most importantly for students of Ethnic American studies, the heralded "interracial" 

love scene between Welch and Jim Brown--note how YouTube entices you by making you 

leave this site to see the erotic fireworks!

Venta Venta! Venga Venga! Sale on #Mextasy Swag !!!

#mextasy shoppe sale! more swag than you can shake a palo at! https://t.co/2yaZ9Zyolh pic.twitter.com/ETl5qeXpDI

— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) July 14, 2021

John Baldessari via Mark Dery via Austin Kleon ... Art, Teaching, and More

via @markdery / @austinkleon John Baldessari
“I taught because I needed the money but I tried to keep it interesting by making teaching as much like art as I could.”
“I found out that you can’t really teach art, you can just sort of set the stage for it.”https://t.co/5hfBIyjT3i

— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) July 2, 2021

Stop the Presses! #textmex #mextasy #browntv + #eyegiene hit the road, post-plague, we are now booked solid for a diez y seis de septiembre gig at boise state university, Sept 16, 2021 | details to follow!

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Classic #textmex or Another Chapter in the History of Mexican Stereotypes! Gunsmoke Edition: Ten Little Indians

Xicanosmosis, Alien Edition

#xicanosmosis ... facehugger edition! ➕ #mextasyhttps://t.co/umLjSX8gVx pic.twitter.com/84OmKNXEb2

— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) June 19, 2021

#Repost || Aunt Jemima and Friends Hit the Road or Another Chapter in the History of American Stereotypes

I posted this on my Facebook page a year ago, but it merits reposting here on the Textmex Galleryblog owing to its connection to my book:

Wow! A magic moment in the semiotic history of the Americas as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and the Cream of Wheat Porter face extinction!

Aunt Jemima

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/after-131-years-pepsico-is-dropping-aunt-jemima/

Uncle Ben

https://www.adweek.com/agencies/uncle-bens-to-change-visual-brand-identity-following-aunt-jemima-news/

Cream of Wheat porter, next?

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/these-brands-are-still-tapping-into-nostalgia-for-slavery-whether-you-realize-it-or-not/

Here also, is page #142 from Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America--where the connection between Jemima and other Ethnic American superstars (I am talking about you, Speedy!) get their day in the sun.

click to enlarge 

More on Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America here: https://amzn.to/37mboym

More #BrownTV Fun!

"The on-train entertainment was just awesome." If you can't get your televisual fix, then pick up some #browntv! A new cultural studies tome from @eyegiene & @ProfessorLatinx!

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— talking #browntv (@browntv12) June 7, 2021

My Fall 2021 Graphic Narrative Class, "Psychedelic Images," at SDSU, Featuring Some #Textmex New Favorites! Works by Emil Ferris and Matt de la Peña

If you know SDSU freshmen or sophomores presently registering for classes for Fall 2021, do me a favor and push their eye to my English 157 Comics and History class! My take on the class taught also by the History Department? Something I am calling Psychedelic Images! more info here! 

Original posting to image below, here!

#sdsupsychedelicimages

Think that Blogs are a Dying Medium!? Follow my Doings on Twitter Then!!! @eyegiene

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

 click for the linkazo/original story

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)

If you liked Tex[t]-Mex and dug #Mextasy, you'll love #BrownTV!!!

What better way to spend the day than by screening #browntv by @eyegiene + @ProfessorLatinx

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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

Don't Let Covid-19 Dash Your Dreams of a #Mextasy Laced Tomorrow! Snag a Copy of our Limited Edition Poster Book and Receive Any Two Mextasy Prints Free! Gratis! Cheap!

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

Tasty New Swag in the Mextasy Teepublic Commodity Fetishization Warehouse!

The Circus of Desmadres grows and grows -- gearing up for the next major #mextasy exhibition somewhere in the great...

Posted by Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America on Monday, March 1, 2021

All Hail the Lorax, Rita Hayworth, MLK, and more ...

Stephen Smith, a former student and always friend, snapped this picture of me whilst visiting @sdsu a couple of years...

Posted by William Nericcio on Sunday, February 28, 2021

The full picture as Zuckerberg's cropping-mania 

mangles the background of the photo:

French Based #Mextasy for TALKING #BrownTV by Memo Nericcio and Fede Aldama !!! c/s

@ProfessorLatinx and @eyegiene, Professors Fede Aldama and Memo Nericcio, are excited to splash their work overseas in Paris... Selections from TALKING #BrownTV from @ohiostatepress will be appearing in an upcoming issue of https://t.co/gc1zpMvSdS

Viva la France! pic.twitter.com/vWGLLKIAso

— talking #browntv (@browntv12) February 22, 2021

#BrownTV in the News!

 

In Search Of Latinos On TV https://t.co/EIymVP0T66 via @prx

very cool! @ProfessorLatinx laying down the savvy on our new book #browntv ... check it out here: https://t.co/CaYGUGGDUZ pic.twitter.com/HRQoijMfCv

— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) February 10, 2021

Scope it Out! The Latest Way to Get your Eyes on #BrownTV by Frederick "Fede" Aldama and William "Memo" Nericcio #mextasy

 

Scope it out and add some mexy Latinx televisual analysis to your life!

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— talking #browntv (@browntv12) January 23, 2021

Celebrating its One Year Anniversary Out in the Wild! Talking #BrownTV by Frederick Luis Aldama and William "Memo" Nericcio | From the Ohio State University Press

Looking for a mass media studies book by and focused on Latinas/os/xers and the history of Television, Cinema, & Streaming Media? Are we talking Marshall McLuhan? Nope, we’re TALKING #BrownTV — by @ProfessorLatinx and @eyegiene from @ohiostatepress 👁👁 ➡️ https://t.co/iicblm95RC pic.twitter.com/1r27rpfHOE

— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) January 15, 2021

The Tijuana Story == Classic #textmex Cinema from 1957

 

Thanks to Marisela Norte, our Chicana Virgil of LA mass transit whose Facebook page tipped my eyes to the magic of THE TIJUANA STORY -- a true story dramatized and mextified via Hollywood. Watch it here: https://trailers.to/fa/movie/557116/the-tijuana-story-1957#watch-now

The lobby card photos are outstanding--here are some I found on the internets!