BARRIO BAROQUE - Monday, May 5, 9:30-11:30am @ SD Mesa College

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BARRIO BAROQUE - Monday, May 5 @ SD Mesa College

Join Mesa’s Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, San Diego Mesa College Humanities Institute and local publishing mavericks Calaca Press as they present two masters of the word for Cinco de Mayo 2008.

BARRIO BAROQUE Rats, Rants, & Other Turf Wars of the Naked Tongue

A book discussion and spoken word performance featuring the literary talents of

SDSU Professor William “Memo” Nericcio Tex{t}-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America

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Former Taco Shop Poet Tomás Riley mahcic: selected poems

Monday, May 5, 2008
9:30-11:30am

Room H-117/118

Mesa College
7250 Mesa College Drive San Diego, CA 92111

FREE and open to the public!

Stereotype deconstructionist Nericcio and metaphor mixing poet Riley form a potent one-two punch of Chicano linguistic insight. By breaking down cultural barriers and building multicultural alliances through their writing these two wordbending marvels bring a much needed ray of light to the latin literary world. Calaca Press and SD Mesa College Chicana and Chicano Studies Dept. are thrilled to collaborate by bringing these two genre defying scribes to campus in what will be a truly entertaining presentation and performance.

Their books: Tex{t}-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America and mahcic: selected poems will be available for sale.

Praise for Nericcio and Riley: “[Text-Mex] is the closest Latin@ studies has come to a revolutionary vision of how American culture works through its image machines, a vision that cuts through to the roots of the U. S. propaganda archive on Mexican, Tex-Mex, Latino, Chicano/a humanity. Nericcio exposes, deciphers, historicizes, and 'cuts-up' the postcards, movies, captions, poems, and adverts that plaster dehumanization (he calls them 'miscegenated semantic oddities') through our brains.” - David Carrasco, Harvard University

“mahcic gets you open on Riley’s music. A poet who writes like a master DJ: scratching metaphor, mixing cultures and re-mixing themes until he infiltrates your consciousness and makes you recall the gloss before the glitter while warning you about the wind before the storm.” – Willie Perdomo, author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime

William Anthony Nericcio travels in various academic disguises, including American Lit scholar, Latin Americanist, Chicana/Chicano Studies devotee/vato, wannabe film studies guru, cultural studies maven, and, last but not least Laredense Tejano acolyte of deconstruction. His book Tex{t}-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America was published in 2007 by University of Texas Press.

Tomás Riley is a poet, writer, educator and a veteran of the seminal San Diego based Chicano spoken-word collective The Taco Shop Poets. His self-released CD Message From the New Forreal debuted in 2003 and his book mahcic: selected poems was published in 2005 by Calaca Press.

This event is organized by Calaca Press, the San Diego Mesa College Chicana and Chicano Studies Department and the San Diego Mesa College Humanities Institute.

For more information (including parking) contact Manuel J. Veléz (619) 388-2375 or mvelez@sdccd.edu.

Funding has been provided by San Diego Mesa College Humanities Institute.

Visit these related websites:

Tomás Riley: http://www.yofoolio.com http://www.myspace.com/yofoolio

William “Memo” Nericcio: http://textmex.blogspot.com http://literature.sdsu.edu/textmex http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/nertex.html

Calaca Press http://calacapress.com http://www.myspace.com/calacalandia

San Diego Mesa College Chicana and Chicano Studies Department http://www.sdmesa.edu/chicano-studies

San Diego Mesa College Humanities Institute http://www.sdmesa.edu/humanities-institute

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New from Calaca:

Palabras de Poder: Rebel Writers from the New Latin@ America Conjunto Norteño: Relatos para la plebada by Pablo Jaime Sainz Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience

Coming in 2008:

Under What Bandera 2.0: Immigration Ofrendas from the Front Lines

Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas by Olga Garcia Echeverria

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