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“A rabidly anti-communist film”. Easy to say years after the end of the Cold War. But at the time our nuclear weapons technology had recently been stolen using a cabal of Stalin’s communist spies working for the US government. Those who didn’t live in that era are quick to pass judgment on what was done, just as future generations will pass their judgment upon them for what they’ve done. Be happy everything worked out as it did, borscht isn’t a meal most Americans enjoy.
At one point, Mexico was just as large, actually I believe larger at one point, than the United States, and in some prominent politicians of the day on the United States side agreed that besides itself, Mexico was the second largest republic, second only to the US, and by far the most secure and promising, in terms of Polititcal and social values, and most of the negative sentiment exists only as a type of “yellow journalism or false narrative” to further exploit and demean Mexicans especially following the Mexican war of 1846. Most of the negative stereotypes and comments about Mexicans, Mexican aggression, and Mexican imbecility are slanderous falsehoods and fabrications, nurtured by Americas corrupt political class, southern task masters, and flesh mongers (slavers) who benefit from those lies. Many Americans prior to the war and annexation of 55% of Mexico, pointed to Mexican imbecility (stupidity) , idleness, and poor management as reasons to rob and plunder its weakly defended territory. Some quotes call Mexicans “greasers, reptiles, lower than the average African slave” some pretty low words, and stated rather than to treat them accordingly to laws and treaties, to despoil them, plunder them, peonage them into agricultural slaves, they even said if done so they would be the best slaves even better than the Africans, and stated like the Indian and African problem, they can be restrained and controlled. They viewed Mexicans as merely an obstacle to their “manifest destiny” and like the Indian, the tide of immigration and anglo Saxon industry will freeze the Mexicans out, and before a 100 years rolls by, they’ll become extinct. The main underlying cause of all this was economic greed, a few corrupt American citizens, businesses, and politicians especially from the south wanted more territory for slavery, because Mexico wouldn’t sell and the northern states wouldn’t budge, they saw the easier path and more obvious one was to stage a war with Mexico and expand their “southern interests” that say. If you read the Anti Texas Legion remonstrance by Benjamin Lundy, it describes exactly this and how the Mexican myth came to be, and why if anything, Mexicans should be the ones hating Americans for violating the hospitality that Mexicans gave them for so long. I’ll attach the link to the anti Texas protest below, if you haven’t check it out Anti Texas Legion Remonstrance against the Texas Rebellion/ Mexican War by the Northern Free States ( Vermont, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ect ) www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.antitexass00amesjul/?st=pdf&pdfPage=45
Great book describing early Mexican American life on the perspective of the Mexicans is “Squatter and the Don” by Maria Burton, describes the early life of Mexican Californios following the Mexican American war and how the change of rule impacted their welfare and economic future. The main theme of the book is the Californios following an unjust war in 1846 are not treated as citizens but obstacles to growth of the new incoming anglo population and their culture as well as property are violated by land sharks and corrupt politicians. It also gives insight how these Californios are result of the mixing between the Spanish and Indian populations, and some of these families like Don Mariano’s have always lived in the northern Mexico territory and never crossed the border like some claim all Mexicans have
I know he had 2 sets of twins and 1 child in middle all under age of 3 yrs...when his life was cut short by a drunk driver *** please people do not drink & drive...affects both families ?
New Mexicans would never ever ever describe themselves as Mexican Americans. They call themselves Spanish. Nor do they consider themselves Latinos. Just saying.
Nunca me había detenido en la parte final, cuando mencionan que tocarían con Kamasi Washington y Anita Tijoux. Que genios, debe haber sido un gran espectáculo. Esta presentación, la del video, es mi favorita de la banda.
That's right by our post office my grandma Ollie Willy Grandma lived at the corner house she would take us to the church right down the street when pastor Boyd and sister Darlene were there they were Great People My Mother Debbie Graham and Farther Tiburcio Cortez ❤
Where I would somewhat defend the casting (or at least to present it as less bad under a certain light) is when you consider the Hispanic community portrayed specifically in the book and film, and the source material: the Monterey paisanos of back then tended to have significant European ancestry besides the usual mestiza ancestry of most Mexican Americans, many identified more as Spanish descendants than as Mexican (American)s, many looked white passing or were light skinned enough, and often had non-Spanish Euro-descent members of the community's gen pool as well (like Big Joe Portagee in "Tortilla Flat"), so it is a bit less egregious than some Mexican Revolution Hollywood films, and also because Steinbeck wrote the novel as a white author with very mixed feelings towards Hispanics and Southern Europeans who wrote it as an intentional rewriting of the quintessencial Anglo-Celtic story of the King Arthur cycle, so his "Hispanics" were already very Anglo-Celtic in style anyhow and the "racial masquerade" is present even without the casting. It is one of those times where the book had it easier because we could fill in our minds as much of their appearance as is not fully described and the language of writting is whatever language or accent we may imagine them talking in in the "translation convention" of media. Sure you could have lighter skinned Hispanic actors (more recent picks for a film as this could be Demian Bichir or Diego Boneta) but you could always "lose" representation-wise, given the characters are sort of happy winos, and given the characters are pretty Anglo-Celticised in how they're portrayed even in the book (aside some Spanish thrown in) you could say the problem was these actors having tried to have accents and add "ethnic colour" and would be less bad if they just played it as white Americans who happen to have Spanish and minor mixed race ancestry, although of course you could complain it was basically reducing the community in the story as the same as Anglos, but as seen there are plenty of issues going back to the boom that even with Latin casting it would still have issues. One issue I wished Mr. Noriega had touched upon is how it seems to present the Hispanic paisanos under a comparatively more positive light, while Portagee Joe despite his European ancestry is shown comparatively more negative (which is a tendency of favouring Spanish over Portuguese ancestry in white American authors we can see also, for example, in H. P. Lovecraft), would be interesting to comment on what that said on Steinbeck's personal biases, a certain tendency to consider Spanish less black mixed than Portuguese, to favour Amerindian mixed Ibero-Americans or people n general to (real or suspected) black mixed ones, or Big Joe being portrayed as such a man child more because he is the story's equivalent to the jester knight figures of Dagonet or Dinadan.
You can tell ehen someone was a part of this culture ehen they moved into your apartment complex or neighborhood cuz they would have sll the dj equipment yhe clothes the piercings etc. They sleays seemed yo miss the scene so bad.
Highlights: 14:08 Chicano Batman meaning. 15:20 Lembrancinha 20:50 La samoana 27:00 A hundred dead and loving souls 31:28 Chicano Batman vibing 35:22 Um día do sol (presentación de los integrantes) 38:17 Lisandreando 40:11 La manzanita 45:20 Itotiani 52:49 Soniatl ❤
When I was a kid I asked my mother why on the spanish speaking tv channel they portrayed gays as weak and feminine and she said,”It is better to have some visibility even if it is bad…than to have no visibility at all.” That is how I feel about Tortilla Flat.
¡Qué hermoso el modo como habla de su mujer! Estoy de acuerdo. Es muy bueno tener a alguien que nos apoya, principalmente que nos hace seguir adelante.
