Before Chicano : Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 /
Varon, Alberto
Before Chicano : Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 / Alberto Varon. - 1 online resource : 9 black and white illustrations - America and the Long 19th Century ; 21 .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479863969 9781479868827
10.18574/nyu/9781479863969.001.0001 doi
Citizenship--History--United States--19th century.
Citizenship--History--United States--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.
Mexican Americans--History--19th century.
Mexican Americans--History--20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies.
Adolfo Carrillo. America First. American citizenship. American democratic individualism. American literature. American political history. Américo Paredes. Bracero Program. Catarino Garza. Charles Lummis. Chicano movement. Chicano. Donald Trump and immigration. Gertrude Atherton. Josefina Niggli. José Antonio Villarreal. Jovita Gonzalez. Juan Nepomuceno Cortina. Latino Studies. Latino culture. Latino identity. Manuel Cabeza de Baca. Mexican American bandit. Mexican American war. Mexican American. Mexican Revolution. Monterrey. México de afuera. Spanish fantasy heritage. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. U.S. citizenship. Vicente Silva. Woodrow Wilson. World War I. expatriate. immigrant labor. immigration. manhood and masculinity. nationalism. racialization. sexuality. transnationalism. xenophobia.
E184.M5
973.046872
Before Chicano : Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 / Alberto Varon. - 1 online resource : 9 black and white illustrations - America and the Long 19th Century ; 21 .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781479863969 9781479868827
10.18574/nyu/9781479863969.001.0001 doi
Citizenship--History--United States--19th century.
Citizenship--History--United States--20th century.
Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.
Mexican Americans--History--19th century.
Mexican Americans--History--20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies.
Adolfo Carrillo. America First. American citizenship. American democratic individualism. American literature. American political history. Américo Paredes. Bracero Program. Catarino Garza. Charles Lummis. Chicano movement. Chicano. Donald Trump and immigration. Gertrude Atherton. Josefina Niggli. José Antonio Villarreal. Jovita Gonzalez. Juan Nepomuceno Cortina. Latino Studies. Latino culture. Latino identity. Manuel Cabeza de Baca. Mexican American bandit. Mexican American war. Mexican American. Mexican Revolution. Monterrey. México de afuera. Spanish fantasy heritage. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. U.S. citizenship. Vicente Silva. Woodrow Wilson. World War I. expatriate. immigrant labor. immigration. manhood and masculinity. nationalism. racialization. sexuality. transnationalism. xenophobia.
E184.M5
973.046872