Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora

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