Latina Hegemony, Eva Mendes Edition 2008

Though I had hinted at it on my amazon.com Tex[t]-Mex image page, I am just getting around here to chronicling sordid semiotic tales of Latina sexual hegemony in 20th and 21st century mass culture--Sacher von Masoch is smiling somewhere--especially about the 3rd image of Mendes below; first the images... discussion to come:

compare this last one to the infamous 

eva longoria chains/puppet

shoot linked here.

Yet Another Chapter in the Semiotic History of Latina Bombshells Shilling Product and Sexuality

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source: egotastic.com

Salma Hayek: To Embody and Betray a Stereotypical Matrix

Sexy as synecdoche for Latina/o; Latina/o as synecdoche for sexy...





More on this soon. In the interim, a meme spun off of Amazon.