Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora

“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

“A fabulously researched treatment of formative historical turning points informing the experience of men of Mexican descent in Mexico and the United States. Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández's incisive analysis makes for a rich consideration of Mexican masculinity over time and across relationships and destinations. She makes critical archives and historical actors accessible to undergraduate students new to the investigation of the borderlands, gender, and archive creation. Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora contributes to a wide array of fields of inquiry, especially American studies and ethnicity, gender studies, Chicanx and Latinx studies, and Latin American studies.” - Ana Elizabeth Rosas, author of Abrrazando el Espíritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border

“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

"Nicole Guidotti-Hernández’s Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora continues those conversations, injecting a critical examination of intimacy, belonging, and masculinity through photographs and private archives." - Kris Klein Hernandez, Journal of American Ethnic History

"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

"This book’s investigation of Mexican masculinities from the early twentieth century to the 1960s from a gender and queer studies perspective is relevant to students and scholars of Mexican American studies, literary studies, history, and archival studies." - Juan-Daniel Hernandez, MELUS

"Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora is a compelling book that raises much needed questions about the persistence of machismo-based narratives of Mexican masculinity. The methods that Guidotti-Hernández employs in re-reading the archive will  hopefully challenge and inspire other scholars to consider how affect opens the way towards histories of non-normative gender performance." - Samanta Ordóñez Robles, Bulletin of Spanish Studies