invades the united states and because he's -- as a second south texas a jokester, he invaded columbus new mexico. take that, columbus. here's your european invasion the result of that wasn't very funnyfunny, right? some people got killed in columbus new mexico and the united states government sent 25,000 troops, including macarthur and poun patent her just gottent of west point to find our good friend, poncho villa. some 25,000 troops go. they never found him. they didn't catch him. but right when that was happening, there were two things going on in the united states. vaudeville houses were closing, and motion picture houses were opening everywhere. motion picture houses showing newsreels of american soldiers in mexico with that mexicans, bandit mexicans, thieving mexicans. so that for me as a tragedy of mexican u.s. relations into the 21st century, that at the birth of the picture, at the birth of the motion picture these newsreels and postcards crystallize the image of a mexican as other, not just any other, dead dirty bandit other. so i was trained with a ph.d to write about latin american f

where a bunch of them invade the united states and because he is a jokester he is invading columbus new mexico. here is your european invasion. the result of that was not very funny. the united states government. including mcarthur and patton had just gotten out of west point in finding our good friend and 25,000 troops go. but right when it was happening there were two things going on and the states. in motion picture houses were opening everywhere they were showing the news reels. with the dead mexicans. that is the tragedy of mexican u.s. relations into the 21st century. if the birth of the picture and the motion picture they crystallized the image of the mexican as other. i was trained with a phd to go with the fiction. elimination and the literature of the americans. is a billable as a dissertation. i started writing exclusively about the construction from speedy gonzalez from the touch of evil. the mexican spitfire. there is a judicial of mexicans doing the step and fetch. the kind of ethnic vaudeville routine that crystallizes our meaning for people in mass culture. we can turn to the f

some people got killed in columbus, new mexico, and the united states government sent 25,000 troops, including macarthur and patton, who had just gotten out of west point, to find our good friend, poncho villa. so 25,000 troops go. they didn't find him. they didn't catch him. right when that was hopping, two things were going on in the united states. vaudeville houses for closing and motion picture houses were opening everywhere. motion picture houses showing news reels of dead mexicans, thieving mexicans. that to me is the tragedy, that at the birth of the motion picture, these news reels and imagerds crystallized the of the mexican as the other dirty bandit other. i was trained as a ph.d. to write about latin american fiction. i threw that book out the window. i never published it. it's a very good beautiful. it's available as a dissertation. i started writing exclusively about the structure of ethnicity in american pop culture. to "touch of evil" orson welles' story about the border. to the mexican spitfire. there's a tradition of mexicans doing the equivalent of step and fetch, v