Visual cues to Caramelo
Or, a trochemoche of Chicano-mejicano pop culture references*
*Is this PowerPoint background cheesy or what?
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Pedro Infante: 1940s singer, actor, and national icon
Jorge Negrete, “El Charro Cantor”
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Josephine Baker in banana skirt, ca. 1925
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María Antoineta Pons, the Cubandancer and film star(career: 1940s through mid-1960s)
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Germán Valdés, “Tin Tan”
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Mario Moreno,“Cantinflas”
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Señor Wences (Wenceslao Moreno) on the Ed Sullivan Show,circa 1960
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45 RPM single sleeve
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Poster for director Elia Kazan’s Viva Zapata!, 1952
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La familia Burrón comic (p. 247)
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Mexican fotonovela
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Luis Jimenez, Tucson artist: two versions of Lithograph “Southwestern Pieta,” 1983-4 (depicts Popo and Ixta legend)
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Isn’t it great that images of the ‘sleeping Mexican’ Are no longer so prevalent in popular culture?
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. . . Or are such representations closer to home than we think?
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Benito Júarez, Presidentof Mexico
Empress Carlota