Sociological Images Posting on Bandits, Tequila, Saucy Latinas and More

¡Venta, Venta! ¡Venga, Venga! Amazon.com TEXTMEX Book Sale

For some reason, Jeff Bezos and company at Amazon.com have lowered the price of TEXTMEX, my UT Press volume that documents "hallucinations" of "Mexicans" in American mass culture, for 14 dollars and one cent! Get them while they're hot! Hit the image above to see the details and scarf down some latinized cultural studies for a song.

Lalo Alcaraz in San Diego Today! Xicanosmotic Ink or the Chicano Charles Schultz

more here.

First, They Buy Spiderman, Now They Tinker Again With Race

Here's the trailer:

Dear Abby, Ask-A-Mexican Style: Gustavo Arellano Back in La Casa Tex[t]-Mex

Queen's Another One Bites the Dust, Mariachi-style or Xicanosmotic Musica

Thanks to George Luna-Peña for the link--hit the image and you will be instantly transported to a world touched by the fires of XicanOsmosis, a world where Freddie Mercury and Banda live together in bliss!

Press Release: Rosario Castellanos Panel, CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, August 27, 2009

A big abrazo to Pablo Jaime Sáinz who passed along this press release from the CECUT, Centro Cultural de Tijuana with info on the Rosario Castellanos panel last Thursday!

Xicanosmosis Mexicali Style

While the "naco" slurs on this site are distracting, there is something uncanny and xicanosmotic about this Louis Vuitton home allegedly in Mexicali. Click the house for the original posting--here's where I found it.

Catching Up on Catherine Ramirez's THE WOMAN IN THE ZOOT SUIT

Not One but TWO Chicanos in Space!

Edward Kennedy: A Champion for Immigrant Rights

Margarita Carmen Cansino, Rita Hayworth, and Adrienne McLean

I am not totally positive, but I think Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardomfell totally off my radar when I was backfilling research on my Rita Hayworth project for Tex[t]-Mex; I have only just started perusing it, and online, which doesn't really count, but it strikes me at first glance as a 1st-rate piece of Ritarcheology. More on this to come. Here's another page from this beautifully designed volume:

The Latino Comedy Project's ACCORDION HERO

Thanks to Raul Ramos, amazing profe de Houston for the link:

African American Art and Xicanosmosis

Something similar to what I ascribed to the work of Izel Vargas in these "pages" is going on with the work of Abdi Farah--they are both post-movimiento style painters whose work honors the past (the history of ethnic American figuration) but that also break through and point to new futures: in a sense they reboot African- and Mexican-American figuration with a deft touch.

My thanks to Mark Dery for tipping my eyes to this post!

Mark Dery Is In the House: New Review of Tex[t]-Mex

A big shout-out and abrazo to Mark Dery, the dapper/prolix inventor of 'culture-jamming,' for his rousing review of Tex[t]-Mex on his Shovelware site!