Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478013242)

In Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hern疣dez 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-Hern疣dez foregrounds Mexican men's emotional vulnerabilities and intimacies in their diasporic communities. Highlighting how Enrique Flores Mag, an anarchist political leader and journalist, upended gender norms through sentimentality and emotional vulnerability that he performed publicly and expressed privately, Guidotti-Hern疣dez 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-Hern疣dez 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.

Author: Nicole M. Guidotti-Hern疣dez
ISBN-10: 1478013249
ISBN-13: 9781478013242
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2021
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2022