Visual cues to Caramelo

Or, a trochemoche of Chicano-mejicano pop culture references*

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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