Son of Border Crisis

In these seven short video performances directed by Isaac Artenstein Gómez-Peña confronts Mexican-American culture clashes stereotypes and the Fourth World (immigrants). Speaking through a bullhorn or on the airwaves of mock-station Radio Latino FM he broadcasts a message that will not be silenced. He delivers such comic comparisons as between “tacos without salsa” and “art without ideas” and such pointed statements as “thanks to marketing and not to civil rights we are the new generation.” The taped monologues include Son of Border Crisis El Post-Mojado The Mexican Fly Dear Californian Employer Sanctions The Year of the Yellow Spider and The Year of the Hispanic.