The Guardian, Enrique Peña Nieto, and the Buying of the Mexican Election

Al Madrigal on The Daily Show | Latino Unemployment

Thanks to my cool graduate student Matt Doran for forwarding this to the textmex galleryblog....

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Frida Kahlo, 1932 | Yale Beinecke Digital Library

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Pretty Remarkable LADY FROM SHANGHAI Lobby Card Auction, via Heritage Auctions

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African Americans in the Comics | via SEQUENTIAL CRUSH

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Watch Race, Romance and the Comic Book on PBS. See more from History Detectives.

Lupe Vélez's Talents! Watch as She Mimics Dolores del Río, Simone Simon, Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Temple

Who Does Not Need Whiter Skin? Another Chapter in the History of Racialized Commodity Fetishism

Another Chapter in the History of Pulp Fiction and the Latina Bombshell

Huge thanks to Oliver Mayer, the amazing LA-based playwright and USC profe, for sending me a postcard featuring Sheldon Lord's lurid Puta novel--also known as Born to be Bad.   I did a little hunting and found this on the web--I will post the postcard shortly...  (Sheldon Lord is also known as Lawrence Block).

Here is the postcard Oliver sent me--from a San Diego outlet, no less...

Classic 1941 Rita Hayworth Photo, Shot by Bob Landry (via Heritage Auctions)

 

 

 

 

 

Rita Hayworth by Bob Landry (Columbia, 1941)

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Sleeping Mexicans! Sleeping Mexicans!

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Tumblred Across a New Rita Hayworth Photo...

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New Fall Undergraduate Class @ SDSU: English 220: The Naked Eye/I: The Art of Madness in Literature, Film, Art, and the Web | William Nericcio, SDSU

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The collaborative relationship of Man Ray and Meret Oppenheim will take up a week of our seminar

Racialicious on Latina/o Docs!

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Utterly Remarkable Mexican Movie Posters, via 50 Watts

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SOURCE: http://50watts.com/filter/mexico/El-Tren-Expreso

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 | MEXTASY Show at The Front, Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, Califas: Gustavo Arellano, Bill Nericcio, Daniel Hernandez, y Los Hollywood...

You and yours are invited!-- more details here.

New poster variations for the casa familiar/gig...

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