Arizona Crayons: Skin, Multi-Culturalism, and More

original posting: 5/6/10




regular n'ere-do-well correspondent, Daphne Strassmann, chimes with this link to another Arizona-inspired semiotic comment.



update: March 5, 2012.....

source

older image posting since the jezebel.com image is down....

The Tex[t]-Mex Semiotic Composite For the Day! The graphic novel adventures of a gunslingin' güero tonto—muchas piernas, balas, y pistolas.

warning! not for those earnestly
ensconced in a nunnery or monastery!

original posting, here...

The Latest on Jamaica Skin Bleaching or a Meditation on Self-Fashioning/Self-Loathing

Thanks to Southern Californa malcontent/
intellectual Dr. Marc García-Martínez for the headsup!

Multicultural Crayons!

Thanks to UT Film PhD student, Amanda Gray for the image;
original source, unknown.

God, I am losing my mind.... this is a repost.

Vaseline's Skin Whitening Application!

The things people come up with--but really, please, no feigned self-righteous indignation and outrage. One of the conclusions nestled within the mess that is Tex[t]-Mex is the view that racism and technology are always already in bed together. This is just more proof in the pudding. Hit the image on the right for the story and the image below for an update.

Skin Color, Skin Whitening and the Scourge of Being Too Dark

Big besos to Michael Wyatt Harper, our Southland correspondent, who checks in with a link to some riveting radio that muses upon recent trends in skin lightening! Holy Rita Hayworth! What's next? A new vogue on hairline electrolysis? Click the image above to be teleported right away.

Melatonin Debate at Guanabee

An Oldie But a Goodie--"Mexican" "Flesh" Bandaids, A Sarcastic Soliloquy

What a load off my mind! Finally, I can relax! For years, dear reader, I have suffered the pain of wearing band-aids that were not my skin color! For decades, tears have riven furrows 'cross my face as I walked through a world where bandages mocked the skin color of my Latina and Latino hermanas y hermanos! Like some vestigial cousin of the "flesh"-colored crayon, Band-Aids continued propagating the charade that when we bled, we did so on pinkish "skin-canvases" that were all the same color!

Now, at long last, we rest--our friends at Johnson and Johnson having followed the progressive souls of Binney and Smith. Click the box for a close-up!


Originally posted January 2, 2007