1950s Era Comic Book Meditations on Human Smuggling, Mexicans, the Border and More! Headline Comics #63 January-February 1954

Every now and then I get lucky. Meandering the back alleys of the internets can turn up some compelling artifacts--particularly where your interests are focused on all things Mexican.  It had not occurred to me until after finishing Tex[t]-Mex (better price here!) that some of the best materials on "Mexicans" in America would be in pulp fiction from the 1930s-1950s.  And that some of the "best" (most garish, most racist, most provocative) materials would appear in genre books--westerns, crime fiction, etc.

That's the case today with Headline Comics #63 from 1954--I am in debt the Bristol Board Tumblr site, a treasure trove of comic book artifacts, for the find. "Slave Peddlers" is a tale of Mexicans and Americans at the border/on the border--with n'ere-do'-wells, crooks, coyotes, "Mexicans" and more. According to Comic Books Plus, the artist credits for this issue are: "Pencils: Marvin Stein?; Inks: Marvin Stein?; Letters: Ben Oda."

Check out the whole story here--like most images on the Textmex Galleryblog, they get bigger when you hit them with your cursor or your finger.

Cuidado! Watchale! Darth Vader is Watching YOU!!! Border Patrol Drone, VADER, Tracking Undocumented Sojourners in the U.S. Southwest

Click the bad guy for the story via the LA Times...

Here's a quick infographic on how the next-gen migra system works... Sleep Dealer ain't science FICTION!

 

Scalia Compares Undocumented Immigrants to Bank Robbers or FLOGGING the Victim, Chapter 1,098,999,222,098

Wells Fargo! Financing Systemic Racism via Prisons!

"John McCain," Immigrant Firestarters, and More on the Daily Show | via Gawker

Undocumented and in Plain Sight: JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS in The New York Times

Great article.

and video...

The New Way to Get Rich! Fill Private Prisons While Hating Mexicans and Hunting Undocumented Immigrants | via cuentame...

more? go here...

SMUGGLE TRUCK for the iPhone and iPad! YOU TOO CAN BE A COYOTE | Another Chapter in the History of Mexiphobia in the Americas?

5/02/11

UPDATE...

2/12/11

Fox Latino News link here.

Call the Migra' and a Photographer! Salma Hayek, "Wetback" | A Story on the Rich, Famous, and Undocumented

Here's a direct link to V España

More on America's Most Recent Celebrity Hypocrite! Lou Dobbs, Ass Supremo of the 21st Century

Lou Dobbs: Tea Party Darling and Goddamn Hypocrite or Yet Another Chapter in the History of 21st Century Neo-fascism

now you know the rest of the story....

The Aliens are Coming! The Aliens are Coming! Anti-Immigrant Neo-Fascism Fuels Entertainment on the Horizon.

It strikes me that there is a very real connection between the incoming salvos of ALIEN feature films and the current anti-immigrant fever sweeping yahoos right and left here in the dear old United States; it's like Uncle Sam's got some odd form of dementia, to be sure! New York Magazine, usually the sharpest tool in the shed, just is not yet hip to the cause of this alien-fever. In any event, their story rocks.

The Undocumented in America, 2010

Like all posts on this blog, hit the image for the link--also note the ad that was autoplaced by some cyberrobot on this NY Times page.

Another Film I Missed: DE NADIE

Thanks to Orin Weintraub for making me aware of this timely film.

Jan Brewer, Certifiably Filled with Anti-Mexican Rage, Hate, and, Not an Ounce of Intelligence!

I see the game-plan now, torn from the pages of Karl Rove--latch onto the basest human sentiment, declare it a reality, come out against it, scapegoat it, loathe it, malign it, hate it, make fun of it, etc. In short, the logic of manufacturing hate, or, making good people hate, as Philip Zimbardo has it. Brewer knows what she's doing and we have to do the same.

The MLA Holds Forth on Arizona's Legislated Lunacy

The BBC on the Undocumented Mexican Worker Death (Anastasio Hernandez) via Taser Incident

update!

Coroner rules death of Mexican migrant a homicide

I happened across these new BBC ads on adbox...

...one of which focuses on the US/EUM border:


Leave it to the BBC to 'see' something other media engines work to obscure.

On another note, the Che ad here freaks me out!

Lou Dobbs, estilo "Mexicano," at Pocho.com

Once before, the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog has had words with prolix and peculiar CNN talkinghead Lou Dobbs, whose views on immigration give the terms shrill and paranoia new depth. Others are on his expansive tail as well!! Hence this link to a May 2007 story at loco Lalo Alcaraz's pocho.com where the Mad Hatter of Chicano comedy has cooked up a scheme to upset the Lou Dobbs juggernaut CNN is hot on the trail of the story! No joke! Be sure to check out pocho.tv as well! The official press release for the contest is here. The philosophy guiding Alcaraz's enterprise is bracing:

"It is the Pocho Hour of Power's contention that today's modern immigrant is assimilation minded and generally eager to please. Today's undocumented immigrant is the uninformed American of tomorrow. Americans have a great tradition of naming their offspring after public figures, like John Wayne, Ronald Reagan and Archie Bunker. What could be more patriotic than naming your baby after a beloved American bigot?"

Strangers No Longer | The Perfect Exposure Gallery

The very same day a Virgin Airlines 747 drops me on the tarmac for two months of fun and academics in jolly old London, a gallery in Los Angeles is going to open its cool new exhibit on the Immigration Rallies of 2006. My half-brother Guillermo Nericcio García even contributed a poem for the event that you can see there lurking to your left. Here's the press release for the LA event:

The Perfect Exposure Gallery presents Strangers No Longer, a photographic account of the immigration rallies that took place throughout the United States in the spring of 2006. The rallies, which brought together people from all walks of life and many diverse cultures, shone a spotlight on the country's broken immigration system and called on our nation's leaders to prioritize addressing this urgent issue. To commemorate the first anniversary of this historic event, The Perfect Exposure Gallery would like to share these bold images with the world, to help keep the dream alive and at the forefront of civic consciousness.

About the Photographers
J. Emilio Flores, Javier Manzano, Javier Bautista, Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez and Armando Arorizo are accomplished photojournalists whose works are published in: The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, La Opinion, Hoy, Agencia EFE, and numerous magazines will collaborate in this exhibit.


Curated by
Aurelio Jose Barrera, Adolfo Guzman Lopez, Angelica Salas and Armando Arorizo

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 24, 2007 5-9pm
at The Perfect Exposure Gallery
3519 West Sixth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90020
Located in the historic Chapman Park Studio Building
Between Alexandria and Normandie

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday
11am - 5pm
Saturday
11am - 4pm
Monday - Closed

Here are San Diego's B-Side Players with their own gifted take on this early 21st century reality: