Visual cues to Caramelo Or, a trochemoche of Chicano- mejicano pop culture references* *Is this PowerPoint background cheesy or what?
Pedro Infante: 1940s singer, actor, and national icon
Jorge Negrete, “El Charro Cantor”
Josephine Baker in banana skirt, ca. 1925
María Antoineta Pons, the Cubandancer and film star (career: 1940s through mid-1960s)
Germán Valdés, “Tin Tan”
Mario Moreno, “Cantinflas”
Señor Wences (Wenceslao Moreno) on the Ed Sullivan Show, circa RPM single sleeve
Poster for director Elia Kazan’s Viva Zapata!, 1952
La familia Burrón comic (p. 247)
Mexican fotonovela
Luis Jimenez, Tucson artist: two versions of Lithograph “Southwestern Pieta,” (depicts Popo and Ixta legend)
Isn’t it great that images of the ‘sleeping Mexican’ Are no longer so prevalent in popular culture?
... Or are such representations closer to home than we think?
Benito Júarez, President of Mexico Empress Carlota