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Tex[t]-Mex : seductive hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America by William Anthony Nericcio is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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“Marvels! Rompecabezas! And cartoons that bite into the mind appear throughout this long-awaited book that promises to reshape and refocus how we see Mexicans in the Americas and how we are taught and seduced to mis/understand our human potentials for solidarity. This is the closest Latin@ studies has come to a revolutionary vision of how American culture works through its image machines, a vision that cuts through to the roots of the U.S. propaganda archive on Mexican, Tex-Mex, Latino, Chicano/a humanity. Nericcio exposes, deciphers, historicizes, and 'cuts-up' the postcards, movies, captions, poems, and adverts that plaster dehumanization (he calls them 'miscegenated semantic oddities') through our brains. For him, understanding the sweet and sour hallucinations is not enough. He wants the flashing waters of our critical education to become instruments of restoration. In this book, Walter Benjamin meets Italo Calvino and they morph into Nericcio. Orale! -Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University A rogues' gallery of Mexican bandits, bombshells, lotharios, and thieves saturates American popular culture. Remember Speedy Gonzalez? “Mexican Spitfire” Lupe Vélez? The Frito Bandito? Familiar

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Author

William Anthony Nericcio

Publisher

University of Texas Press ; [Combined Academic, distributor

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292714564

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Social Science

Rating

3.61 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14