In the early 1970s, Chicano activists successfully lobbied the Frito-Lay Company to remove its cartoon mascot for Frito-Lay corn chips, the Frito Bandito, from public circulation. This figure is the centerpiece of Casas’s pop-styled painting Humanscape 62. A grinning Frito Bandito, who appears to have been carved from semi-precious stone, is perched atop a skeleton and surrounded by a series of ​“brown” references drawn from American and indigenous cultures. Such incongruent juxtapositions — which include a tempting plate of brownies, a junior Girl Scout, a Native American in profile, and quotes of masterworks such as an Aztec mosaic — critique the trivialization of Chicano culture by mainstream American advertising and allude to the rich cultures that stereotypes obscure.