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Before Chicano - Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 (Paperback)
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Before Chicano - Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 (Paperback)
Series: America and the Long 19th Century
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Uncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the
formation of Latino identity In the first ever book-length study of
Latino manhood before the Civil Rights Movement, Before Chicano
examines Mexican American print culture to explore how conceptions
of citizenship and manhood developed in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. The year 1848 saw both the signing of the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the U.S. Mexican War and the
year of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first organized conference
on women's rights in the United States. These concurrent events
signaled new ways of thinking about U.S. citizenship, and placing
these historical moments into conversation with the archive of
Mexican American print culture, Varon offers an expanded temporal
frame for Mexican Americans as long-standing participants in U.S.
national projects. Pulling from a wide-variety of familiar and
lesser-known works-from fiction and newspapers to government
documents, images, and travelogues-Varon illustrates how Mexican
Americans during this period envisioned themselves as U.S. citizens
through cultural depictions of manhood. Before Chicano reveals how
manhood offered a strategy to disparate Latino communities across
the nation to imagine themselves as a cohesive whole-as Mexican
Americans-and as political agents in the U.S. Though the Civil
Rights Movement is typically recognized as the origin point for the
study of Latino culture, Varon pushes us to consider an
intellectual history that far predates the late twentieth century,
one that is both national and transnational. He expands our
framework for imagining Latinos' relationship to the U.S. and to a
past that is often left behind.
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