Two Crows from Tacos | Classic "Mexican" Representation from Friz Freleng and Warner Brothers

Thanks to SDSU student Richard Nuñez for tipping me to this forgotten classic:


Merrie Melodies - Two Crows From Tacos

Friz Freleng's Clean Pastures

The "Autopsy of a Rat" chapter of Tex[t]-Mex on the fastest mouse in all Mexico, Speedy Gonzales, is more than a hatchet job on Warner Brothers and their animators--if anything, it was written as a meditation on the matrix of race and entertainment in the U.S. mass culture.

Freleng was a talented artist and an avid artisan of racialized subject-effects--some of this is on display below in a YouTube broadcast version of Clean Pastures from 1936: