Embodying Latino Masculinities Producing Masculatinidad [Hardcover]

Through explorations of six cases taken from various Latino ethnic groups, this book advances our understanding about meanings of Latino manhood and masculinities. The studies range from theatre and literature to men's activism and sports, showing how masculinities are embodied and performed.Introduction: Mapping Masculitinidad PART I: FROM MEN'S ROOMS TO COFFEE SHOPS: EVERYDAY PERFORMANCES OF MANHOOD 'Maaaaacho, Devoured by a Pop Culture' PART I: DELINQUENCY AND DIGNITY: FROM VIOLENCE TO ADVOCACY Marked Men: Masculine Bodies and Spaces in Chicago Latino Gang and Party Crew Narratives 'Transmuting the Barb-wire Thorns': Gendered Cultural Nationalism and Writing the Prison Experience 'Hung on a Ghetto Cross': Community and Redemption in the Life and Work of Piri Thomas and Luis J. Rodr?guez PART III: PIDIERON CACAO/THEY ATE CROW: PERPETUAL POVERTY, BLACKNESS, AND FAME 'Roncamos porque podemos': Gender, Violence, Redemption, and Latinidad in the Persona and Reggaet?n of Don Omar 'The Hit Man from Washington': (Trans)national Latino Masculinities in Major League Baseball

The greatest strength of Rudolphs book lies in itsarchival selection and its marshaling of such a wide array of research onmasculinity. & I would highly recommend Embodying Latino Masculinities:Producing Masculatinidad to those interested in groundbreaking scholarshipintent on theorizing the embodiment and performance of Latino masculineidentity. Rudolphs Latino/a studies interventions and magnificent closereadings combine to make this an outstanding text. (Noel Zavala, LatinoStudies, Vol. 12 (1), March, 2014)

This rich, critical analysis of masculinity in the US Latino/a social, ethno-racial, and cultural contexts powerfully evinces how cultural texts (theater, media, autobiography, and fiction) and industries (such as baseball and reggaeton) reproduce, engage, and contest dominant constructions about Latino men. Most poignantly, Rudolph uses various case studies to idenl£j