Review | South of the Border with Disney via Cartoon Brew

Walt Disney, Professor of Ethnic Studies; Endowed Chair of Advanced Stereotypes

original posting: 9/29/07

I hope to flesh this out more in the second edition of Tex[t]-Mex, but one of the things I failed to elaborate--and this is odd as this is where the kernel of the idea for the book emerged--was the evolution of Latino subjectivities in comic books; of course, I am indebted here to the crazy-good work of Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart in Dorfman, How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic and Dorfman solo in The Empire's Old Clothes.

In any event, this image here to the right, from a web page that archives references to "I don't need no steenken' badges" web-allusions (!) merits further scrutiny. One question for my more comic-savvy galleryblog readers, is this a Carl Barks illustrated page?


UPDATE on DISNEY's alleged "Mexican" roots! {October 20, 2009}

Always Wash Up! Practice Good Eyegiene! (Disney Style)

More on the History of Race in American Entertainment

Time and again I get asked why I spend so much energy on cartoons--as if the animated fare consumed by children did not rise to a level of importance suitable for the airy heights of the ivory tower. Moronic, but common.

That as a lead-in for a link and a blog site (with video) that feature a series of excised scenes from Walt Disney's masterpiece Fantasia. The most outrageous video, featuring a young, female, African centaur named "Sunflower," appears below. Viewer WARNING, it is quite brief, and features a new take on "spitshine" that is bracing.