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!

African Americans in the Comics | via SEQUENTIAL CRUSH

click the image for the story...

Watch Race, Romance and the Comic Book on PBS. See more from History Detectives.

Another Amazing Chapter in the History of Racialized Representation in America! Betty Boop via BoingBoing.net

Open Season on Mexicans in America

If you look like a cocaine dealer... Bill O'Reilly for Fool of the Year

Black and Brown Gettin' Down: Forest Whitaker's OUR FAMILY WEDDING

Yet Another Chapter in the History Ethnic American Representation or Editing Blackness, Microsoft Style

Hit the image above for the AP story. The photo is here:



Here's the Huffington Post piece on it!

Courtney Young on Tyler Perry in The Nation

Love Commune, aka Ghetto Freaks: Next Up in the Screening Room at the Institute of American Stereotypes

...a rad schlock gem.

African Latino Xicanosmosis, Hair, Race, and Shared Destinies! Cool Blogfind...

and now, for a horse of a different color!

Grace Jones, Corporate Cannibal

Is Grace Jones's new video "Corporate Cannibal" an indictment of capitalism? an evocation of female desire? a deconstruction of blackness? You be the judge!



Gracias to the Imagist, where I chanced upon this site/sight.

Just When You Thought You Had Seen it All, the History of Stereotyping Takes a Bold Step Forward!

More on the "monkey" here; click the image for more than you may be ready for.

Thanks to regular Ace Internet detective Michael Wyatt Harper, Vancouver ex-pat, and resident of Thousand Oaks, for the headsup. No, really, thank you...... What a post!

update

Efforts on the part of the medical community ought to chill me out, but they don't!

Of War and "War": 'Low Rider' and Black/Mexican Tensions

The Memín Pinguin blow-up shows that African American and Latino community tensions are on the rise nationally--all the more reason to remember this Raza anthem and the band, ironically called "War," that made it possible:

Ethnic Mannequins: Pull the Tongue and More!!!

Oops! I forgot a key part of the paper "toy." Yikes!

original posting: June 19, 2008

When it comes to the history of ethnic figuration in popular culture ephemera, it is hard to imagine a better source in terms of range and quality than Pillpat's on Flickr. Two recent finds that should end up in cutting edge research in ethnic or cultural studies:


Heritage Auctions comes close as well:

I Get Emails From Time to Time...

...asking me why I dwell on the history of racial representation in America. I "stumbled-upon" this picture tonight--a living ocular, semiotic trace of the history of race-hatred in the American South.... look at it:


here's the original sourcelink. I want to write about this face--the ecstacy of racial-traced hate is a semiotic project that encompasses lynchings and minstrel shows and Hollywood films.



Not to knock our fellow primates, but the physiognomy of fear and loathing seems to reach across the species. More on this in Eyegiene, proposal presently in development for UTPress.

Spike Lee On Hollywood, Race, and Black Bodies in the World Economy of Cinema