Desgraciamente kitsch racista no para en la frontera.
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- I am a bookseller with about 20 years experience, having taken up the trade after retiring as a trial lawyer. I deal exclusively in books on Mexico & bullfighting. I am sole proprietor of my shop in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. I am also the list owner for The Bibliophile Mailing List, an email discussion list of book dealers, collectors, librarians, & others interested in the book trade. My unfulfilled ambitions are first, to play violin with such artistry as to make a Spanish Gypsy cry and second, to survive with grace in the arena with a full grown toro bravo.
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- Atardecer/Sunset Playas de Tijuana
- En Tijuana la fiesta no para/The party never stops...
- El Dia del Nin~o/Children's Day
- Como se llama el autobus? What is a bus called?
- Un jardin de Tijuana/A Tijuana garden
- Pajaros del mar/Seabirds
- Mas de futbol/More soccer
- Futbol y comida/Soccer and food
- La primavera/Spring
- La amanecer en la playa/Dawn on the beach
- Comida en la playa/Food at the beach
- Sindicatos de proteccion patronal/Company unions
- A warm Sunday at Playas de Tijuana/Un Domingo calo...
- Clinton's wall of death/La Barda de muerte de Clinton
- And from the biannual show/Y de la exhibicion bianual
- Women's Art Show/Exhibicion del arte de mujeres
- Just another beach sunset/ No mas que otro atardec...
- Driving into downtown on 2nd/Manejando para centro...
- Found art on the beach/Encontrar arte en la playa
- Dogs on the beach/Perros en la playa
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3 comments:
Funny you bring this up Lynne. I've been meditating on this very subject lately.
I don't know about down there but up here I've found that the ones creating and mostly of the ones buying it are the Aboriginals themselves (or those who claim to be part).
My guess (and kinda by my 1st hand experience) is that Aboriginals propagate these stereotypes unintentionally as a method of 'cultural reclamation'.
Systematic cultural assimilation has left a void and the only way some can fill this and rediscover their identity is through the creation and promotion of this type of art/craft.
If I'm missing the mark or not I find it an interesting subject nonetheless.
It is a complex subject. I don't know how anyone can see "Chief Wahoo" of Cleveland Indians fame as anything but degrading. Just think about the equivalent image for a team named after African-Americans or Jewish-Americans. Yet even here in Mexico I see Indigenous Mexicans wearing Cleveland Indians caps proudly and without a sense of irony. Oppression so deep as to be completely integrated into oneself? I don't know, and it seems even more complicated in a Mexican context where the genocide was not as developed as in the USA.
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