Mextasy

Sunday, November 22, 2020

New Rita Hayworth #Mextasy Poster

Own your own limited-edition, 11x17inch poster printed on archival paper stock, by ordering it here: Let me know via email, to memo@sdsu.edu, after purchase, whether you want it signed and numbered! There will only be 50 prints of this limited edition #mextasy poster.

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

What is Mextasy!? An Introduction to the Pop-Up "Circus of Desmadres" -- A Traveling Exhibition Coming Soon to a Gallery, Museum, or University Near You!

Updated October 21, 2020 | Last updated September 22, 2020

Mextasy: Seductive Hallucinations of Latina/o Mannequins Prowling the American Unconscious is a traveling pop-up or gallery-based art show/exhibit based on the work of William "Memo" Nericcio and Guillermo Nericcio García. The traveling exhibition was originally curated by Leticia Gómez Franco for Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, California, and Rachel Freyman Brown, South Texas College, McAllen, Texas. Upcoming shows are UC Riverside (virtual via Zoom, thx Covid!) and the University of Detroit, Mercy (eventually). Recent exhibitions include shows at 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 both reflects on and expands upon 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.

Frederick Luis Aldama and William Nericcio LIVE via ZOOM : Talking #BrownTV: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen, Monday October 19, 2020 @ 12noon, Pacific Time

Be there! Get your dose of #browntv live via zoom Monday, Oct 19, 2020 at 12 noon Pacific, 3pm East Coast, & 2pm en Tejas/Midwest... a book talk & conversation with @ProfessorLatinx & @eyegiene

register: https://t.co/S9IKNRzVop

special offer: https://t.co/Wo5kQIllpZ pic.twitter.com/4xibfpnPA7
— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) October 18, 2020

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Save Cash + Snag a World Premiere Special Offer for Frederick Luis Aldama's & William Anthony Nericcio's New Book, Talking #BrownTV: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen ... Pure #Mextasy!!!

Posted December 29, 2019 | Updated September 30, 2020

Crazy Sale! Going on Now!

Hit the "buy now" button below our new book above to purchase your own autographed copy* of talking #browntv: latinas and latinos on the screen by Fede Aldama & Bill Nericcio from the Ohio State University Press. Only $28.95 plus 99¢ shipping (Compare to $34.95 + $3.99 Shipping + tax on Jeff Bezos's evil Amazon portal!)

Here's the skinny on #browntv:

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Talking #browntv
Latinas and Latinos on the Screen

Frederick Luis Aldama
William Anthony Nericcio

Conversation on the representations of Latina/os in American TV and film in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

“Talking #browntv wakes the world to the urgency for televisual media to willfully recreate the complexity and diversity of our Latinx communities.” —Aitana Vargas, award-winning journalist for the LA Times, BBC, and CNN Expansión

“My Dinner with Andre, except with two sassy Solons waxing wise and wacky on Slowpoke Rodriguez, Superman as Mexico’s savior, and other highs and lows of Mexican muses in American pop culture. Nomás falta the Tapatio on this intellectual popcorn!” —Gustavo Arellano, author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor and Director of LASER at The Ohio State University and the author, coauthor, or editor of more than thirty books, including Tales from La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology (Mad Creek Books, 2018).

William Anthony Nericcio is Professor and Director of MALAS at San Diego State University. He is the author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America.

*Note you only get Bill Nericcio's autograph on this special deal--you'll have to reach out on your own to get Fede's John Hancock!

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Another Gus Arriola Sunday Funnies Classic : GORDO

Saturday, August 29, 2020

I am live, on the air streaming, from East Baton Rouge Louisiana, this morning, at 9am West Coast time, 11 central, August 29, 2020 ...

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

What is pure #Mextasy?! Hearing Ruben Salazar Talk About the Chicanos of the Southwest -- We'll Never Melt Away ...

Ruben Salazar didn’t believe Chicanos would assimilate in America’s melting pot.

“We were here first. And we’re just not going to melt.” pic.twitter.com/ovE2hLsWZi
— Steve Saldivar (@stevesaldivar) August 26, 2020

Monday, August 3, 2020

Xicanx Collusions of a Televisual Nature! Talking #BrownTV, A New Book from the Fused Minds of Fede Aldama and Memo Nericcio via The Ohio State University Press! c/s

Get your tasty piece of TALKING #BrownTV now!

Fede Aldama @ProfessorLatinx and Memo Nericcio @eyegiene up to no good, October 2020!https://t.co/6VCn7TsBJD #BrownTV #mextasy #textmex #Latinx #LatinxTelevision #Chicano #Chicana #Raza #latina #latino #culturalstudies pic.twitter.com/w51cn9OWYQ
— talking #browntv (@browntv12) July 15, 2020

Talking #BrownTV: Latinas and Latinos on the Screen

Now in print and out in the wild? talking #browntv: latinas and latinos on the screen! Order now!

talking #browntv is a new critical romp focused on Latinxers in Television, Film and streaming media from the twin fused-minds of William Nericcio and Frederick Luis Aldama! Hit the image-link above to scoop up a copy via OSU Press (and, sadly, make Jeff Bezos even more money, via Amazon) or, mucho mas better? Click here to get it directly from me at a discount with free swag (two #mextasy posters! my autograph!) to boot.

Chicanx / Latinx 21st Century Semiotics! (Not Semi-Idiotics!)

Chihuahuas, though utterly high-strung, are easy to please!

Take Tex[t]-Mex's salesdog, perrito "Don Chepe" here: all you have to do to bring a smile to the little vato's face is to click him! What happens next is magical! You'll be instantly teleported to Amazon.com where you can buy William "Memo" Nericcio's desmadre-filled book on "Mexicans" in the United States and beyond: Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America.

If Amazon is too too corporate for you--'hot,' recently-divorced calvo, Jeff Bezos, not the apple of your eye, then go here to the Mextasy online poster tienda/shop and snap up a much more reasonably priced, signed/autographed copy of Tex[t]-Mex (just email Bill Nericcio at memo@sdsu.edu and tell him who to make the book out to...).

Oh! and get this... FREE SHIPPING and two free Mextasy posters!

When you buy the book via the Mextasy shoppe you'll receive two free gift posters (our choice but we're open to emailed suggestions) and you will have made lil' Don Chepe tremendously happy!

What is ¡MEXTASY!

Mextasy: Seductive Hallucinations of Latina/o Mannequins Prowling the American Unconscious is a traveling art show/exhibit based on the work of William "Memo" Nericcio and Guillermo Nericcio García. Mextasy both reflects and expands upon Nericcio's 2007 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), the show also features works that "xicanosmotic," that is, works by Mexican-American artists where the delicious tattoo of the Mexican/US frontera is writ large as in the deliriously delicious semiotic tracings of Perry Vasquez, Izel Vargas, and Marisela Norte.

The traveling show has previously toured at Adrian College, UCLA, Ann Arbor, Michigan at the University of Michigan; San Ysidro, California (as Xicanoholic) at theFront, Casa Familiar; McAllen, Texas at South Texas College's Pecan campus Art Gallery; Laredo, Texas at the the Laredo Center of the Arts; at a April 8, 2011 opening at the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa; at the Fullerton Public Library with Gustavo Arellano hosting, at San Antonio College for a Tex[t]-Mex reading/signing and an exclusive South Texas MEXTASY exhibition (September 22, 2011), and at CMAS, the University of Texas at Austin. In late 2011, Mextasy traveled to the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, and to Western University, London, Ontario. It's latest exhibition will be at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Mextasy was originally curated by South Texas College (STC) Art and Art History Professor Rachael Freyman Brown, with the assistance of Amanda Alejos (not to mention the meddling of the artist, Guillermo Nericcio García).

Visitors to this page interested in having MEXTASY invade their local gallery of choice should contact us here.