More of a Type, than a Stereotype....

I don't quite know how to characterize this pin-up magazine cover--it is not quite a Tex[t]-Mextian prototype, but it is damn near close. What do you think?

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Enoch Bolles, 1922

In 1922, Enoch Bolles turned his paintbrush and eye South of the Border, or to the border with this winsome lass. Part of the pre-history and history of the eroticization of the Latina/o body in the U.S.

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