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In Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez challenges machismo-a shorthand for racialized and heteronormative Latinx men's misogyny-with nuanced portraits of Mexican men and masculinities along and across the US-Mexico border. Guidotti-Hernandez foregrounds Mexican men's emotional vulnerabilities and intimacies in their diasporic communities. Highlighting how Enrique Flores Magon, an anarchist political leader and journalist, upended gender norms through sentimentality and emotional vulnerability that he performed publicly and expressed privately, Guidotti-Hernandez documents compelling continuities between his expressions and those of men enrolled in the Bracero program. Braceros-more than 4.5 million Mexican men who traveled to the United States to work in temporary agricultural jobs from 1942 to 1964-forged domesticity and intimacy, sharing affection but also physical violence. Through these case studies that reexamine the diasporic male private sphere, Guidotti-Hernandez formulates a theory of transnational Mexican masculinities rooted in emotional and physical intimacy that emerged from the experiences of being racial, political, and social outsiders in the United States.

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Author:   Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781478013242

ISBN 10:   1478013249
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   23 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments  vii Introduction  1 Part I. Enrique Flores Magón's Exile: Revolutionary Desire and Familial Entanglements 1. Greeting Cards, Love Notes, Love Letters  35 2. PLM Intimate Betrayals: Enrique Flores Magón, Paula Carmona, and the Gendered History of Denunciation  43 3. Out of Betrayal and into Anarchist Love and Family  83 4. Bodily Harm  107 5. De la Familia Liberal  127 6. The Split  139 7. The Emotional Labor of Being in Leavenworth  147 8. Deportation to a Home That Doesn't Exist, or ""He Has Interpreted the Alien's Mind""  157 Part I: Conclusion  171 Part II: The Homoerotics of Abjection: The Gaze and Leonard Nadel's Salinas Valley Bracero Photographs 9. Making Braceros Out of Place and Outside of Time  185 10. The Salinas Valley and Hidden Affective Histories  197 11. Hip Forward into Domestic Labor and Other Intimacies  215 12. Queer Precious Lives  233 13. Wanting to Be Looked At  251 14. Passionate Violence and Thefts  275 Part II: Conclusion  283 Conclusion  285 Notes  291 Bibliography  321 Index  329"

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Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora makes a critical contribution to our collective sense of gender dynamics in twentieth century migration studies. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez delivers a nuanced treatment of the masculinity of Mexican migrants over the first half of the twentieth century. Through myriad lenses, we see Mexican nationals as partners and lovers, as fathers and sons, as machos and domestic beings, and in homosocial and heteronormative positions. -- George J. Sanchez, * Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 *

Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora makes a critical contribution to our collective sense of gender dynamics in twentieth century migration studies. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez delivers a nuanced treatment of the masculinity of Mexican migrants over the first half of the twentieth century. Through myriad lenses, we see Mexican nationals as partners and lovers, fathers and sons, as machos and domestic beings, and in homosocial and heteronormative positions. -- George J. Sanchez, * Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 *

Author Information

Nicole M. Guidotti-HernÁndez is Professor of English at Emory University and author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries, also published by Duke University Press.

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