Lupe Velez in PALOOKA | The entire movie...

My essays on Lupe Velez appear in Tex[t]-Mex and in Myra Mendible's From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture--there are minor differences between the two publications.  Each has a section that takes a look at the Lupe Velez vehicle JOE PALOOKA, streaming in its entirety above.

Swarthy Enemies at Home and Abroad

Just a quick link to a Palooka comic from 1956--is the proto-waterboarding "terrorist" Latino? Arab? Both!? An allegory of the U.S. at the height of the Cold War.