Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  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

About the Author

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández is Professor of English at Emory University and author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“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.”
*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.”
*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."
*Latino Studies*