JE: Extra Credit #2 TexMex

It was a complete pleasure seeing William A. Nericcio present his talk, "From Tex[t]-Mex to Mextasy to Eyegiene: Televisually Supercharged Hallucinations of 'Mexicans' in our Digital Humanities-laced, Technosexually Voyeuristic Tomorrow(s)." He immediately won the crowd over with his charm claiming he was a curator not a hoarder and how he was a high tech Aztec. What I found quite interesting was how his book "Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of“Mexicans” in America" took about 16 years to publish. Which evolved to a traveling exhibition, “Mextasy,” displaying an overflowing abundance of Latina/o stereotypes among other artifacts. The 1^st part of the exhibition is artifacts, 2^nd part is graphic works, and the 3^rd part is curator including local Latina/o artists. Nericcio also offers an electronic resource, a Tex Mex gallery blog, where he says the articles are illuminated at a greater length. One of my favorite artifacts Nericcio displayed to us was a sign that said “Caution Mexicans.” What cracked me up was that Nericcio said he should give it to Jan Brewer. Awesome scholar.