The Sleeping Mexican Cement Garden Lawn Decor

As the rhetoric about “dangerous migrants from the southern border” gets increasingly vitriolic, and as we head into the summer—when the desert heat becomes deadly for those traveling across it—I’ve been thinking a lot about the Sleeping Mexican.
You know him. Or her. Usually male, but not always. Also known as Pancho, Pedro, or Ramón, the Sleeping Mexican may just be the quintessential–if not infamous–icon of the US Southwest and Mexico. For many, the icon brings up memories of life in the idyllic Mexican countryside–the campesino who rises early and goes to work in the milpas, thus well-deserving of a quick “power nap” mid-afternoon. Yet others cannot help but cringe when confronted with the image, which seems to multiply ad infinitum all over the Southwestern United States and beyond.
Pancho sits, bent knees, head lowered, shaded under a broad-brimmed sombrero. He wears sandals, loose pants, and a sarape, or striped blanket or poncho, and is often depicted leaning against a saguaro cactus, the other famous icon of the Southwest. If you live in the borderlands, he’s most certainly close by. But if you don’t, he’s probably in your town or city, too—as a figurine in a thrift store, on an old t-shirt, or on the sign of your favorite Mexican restaurant. By Kimi Eisele

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