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Bring ¡Mextasy! A Traveling Circus of Desmadres to Your School, Gallery, University, Library, or Dive Bar! Updated for 2025-2026!
~ Last updated February 17, 2025 ~
#Mextasy is back! 2025-2026

The traveling exhibition or "Circus of Desmadres" was originally curated by Leticia Gómez Franco for Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, California, and Rachel Freyman Brown, South Texas College, McAllen, Texas. Recents shows include exhibitions / performances at the University of Denver, Boise State University, UC Riverside (virtual via Zoom, thx Covid!) Iowa State University and the Nepantla Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, Washington --other noteworthy gigs include performances at Northwestern University, Wabash College, California State University, San Bernardino, and Franklin & Marshall College.
Mextasy is re-imagined, interactive art and artifact exhibition that grew out of Nericcio's 2007 American Library Association award-winning book with UT Press, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the Mexican in America.
In addition to racist artifacts from American mass culture (the bread and butter of Uncle Sam's unconscious and the backstory for the resurgence in anti-Mexican, anti-Latina/o peoples presently), the show also features works
that is "xicanosmotic,"
that is, works by Mexican-American artists where the delicious fusion
of the Mexican/US borderlands/frontera is writ large as in the deliriously delicious
artistic tracings of Raul Gonzalez III, Perry Vasquez, Rafaella Suarez, and Izel Vargas. Visitors to this page interested in having MEXTASY invade their local gallery/university of choice should contact us here.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Best Deal on the Internets! | Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America by William A. Nericcio
updated 7/22//24; posted 4/17/19
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TEX{T}-MEX
SEDUCTIVE HALLUCINATIONS
OF THE "MEXICAN" IN AMERICA
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Original Proposed Cover Art by Guillermo Nericcio García click to enlarge |
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 and reassuring—at least to Anglos—these Mexican stereotypes are not a people but a text, a carefully woven, articulated, and consumer-ready commodity. In this original, provocative, and highly entertaining book, William Anthony Nericcio deconstructs Tex[t]-Mexicans in films, television, advertising, comic books, toys, literature, and even critical theory, revealing them to be less flesh-and-blood than "seductive hallucinations," less reality than consumer products, a kind of "digital crack."
Nericcio engages in close readings of rogue/icons Rita Hayworth, Speedy Gonzalez, Lupe Vélez, and Frida Kahlo, as well as Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil and the comic artistry of Gilbert Hernandez. He playfully yet devastatingly discloses how American cultural creators have invented and used these and other Tex[t]-Mexicans since the Mexican Revolution of 1910, thereby exposing the stereotypes, agendas, phobias, and intellectual deceits that drive American popular culture. This sophisticated, innovative history of celebrity Latina/o mannequins in the American marketplace takes a quantum leap toward a constructive and deconstructive next-generation figuration/adoration of Latinos in America.

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