Republicana loca Michele Bachman wants to be your next U.S. President (and the pendeja wants to turn the clock back on race about 150 years in the process).

Thanks to what was revealed in national media, it seems that an organized and robust conservative Christian group got a few zealous Republican candidates (including locos Michele Bachman and Rick Santorum) to sign a pledge which contained language stating that African-Americans were, in effect, statistically better off as slaves back in the day. Here’s some parlance from that tasteless testimonial:

“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President...”

If the feeling of throwing up your late lunch/early dinner right now is no problem for you, then please read on here.
—Marc García-Martínez


Update..... Colbert weighs in...

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Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marlene Dietrich and More: Great TOUCH OF EVIL Clip off of TCM

The chapter on TOUCH OF EVIL forms the corazón of TEX[T]-MEX--I can't get enough of Welles' inspired imagineering of the US/MEXICO border...

Here's a screengrab of Dietrich from the scene above, right after Welles reveals his identity as "Hank Quinlan," an old friend and customer of "Tanya"--Dietrich as a memorable bordertown prostitute and entrepreneur.

also, from Turner Classic Movies, one of the original hand-colorized lobby cards of Welles's noir classic:

Seeing Rita Hayworth Once Again--the infamous mirrors sequence shot by Charles Lawton Jr., Rudolph Maté, & Joseph Walker with ORSON WELLES directing...

....as a bonus, here's two glossies of Margarita Carmen Cansino, aka Rita Hayworth from a recent Heritage Auction...

Jihad? Jingoísimo? Or just un Jumento? The Aztec Al-Qaeda or Spectre of Evil MEChA on the March

A fairly brief and not-so-crude documentary on Mexican identity, Chicano/a ideology, MEChA, education and politics in Los Angeles, and an idea or two that have certain gabachos frightened in a big way...

—Marc García-Martínez, AHC

Paul Revere Rides Again | Palin via COLBERT REPORT {Classic Comedy}

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UPDATED with McAllen Monitor Story | Nuevo Laredo! WARNING!!!! Another Chapter in the Sad Evolution of the Laredo Borderlands

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The Exotic is Erotic: More On Bizarre Caucasian Figuration | Tribe Edition

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XICANOSMOSIS! Girl in a Coma to Open for The Go-Go’s on the West Coast and Texas

GIAC to Open for The Go-Go’s on the West Coast and Texas

Women in Early Film—an Exhibit with focus on Mexican-American Women

Thought I'd share a fairly thoughtful on-line exhibit from The Women's National History Museum, a particularly germane segment of which focuses on Mexican-American women such as Dolores Del Rio and Lupe Veléz. This little historical showcase speaks to the racial/gendered/integumentary dynamics and strains Mexican and Mexican-American actresses experienced in (the oft cinematic-chauvanistic cesspool that was old) Hollywood. Worth a gander. En la lucha.   —Marc García-Martínez, Ese at large

Sicilia, Calderón, Mexico, and the Drug Anarchy of Today and Tomorrow

GEARING UP FOR FALL 2011

Here are some of the books I had my students working on Spring 2011!



Next up? Fall 2011!

The {Blonde} Mexican Spitfire: Lupe Velez

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New Rita Hayworth Glossy Auction

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and, a bonus, the Mexican movie poster for AFFAIR IN TRINIDAD, another Hayworth classic:

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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), Classic Mexican Movie Posters

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Another Chapter in the History of Racism in the Americas {Texas-style}

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Thanks to SARA INÉS CALDERÓN for the tip!