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Book SynopsisNicole M. Guidotti-Hernández challenges the stereotypes of machismo with nuanced portraits of Mexican men and masculinities along and across the US-Mexico border.
Trade Review“
Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora makes a critical contribution to our collective sense of gender dynamics in twentieth-century migration studies. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández 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. Sánchez, * Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 *
“Guidotti-Hernández is an elegant writer, and this book’s compelling and deeply human arguments resonate through the lucid prose. . . . This is a book to be read slowly, to be scrutinized and experienced.” -- Lydia R. Cooper * Western American Literature *
"This incredibly thought-provoking book is meant to be read closely; Guidotti-Hernández’s forceful analysis, along with the more than fifty accompanying illustrations, deserves careful attention." -- Juan Ignacio Mora * Latino Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
