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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Cousins of Caliban: Nation, masculinity, and Latino men in California, 1945 to mid-1960s Abstract: This is a cultural history of the relationship between national identity, masculinity, and social inequality in California as examined through multiple discourses emerging from both Mexican American male and dominant cultures in the post-war era, from 1945 to the mid-1960s. For the purpose of this study discourses were articulated through multiple forms of culture such as: historical pageants, museum exhibits, public school curricula, television shows, films, newspaper and magazine articles, novels, and oral histories. These discourses constituted, and were constituted by anti-Mexican racist and xenophobic narratives as well as narratives of patriarchal manhood from both dominant and Mexican American cultures. My study reveals that these practices linked national identity, as it related to ethnic Mexican men, to notions of masculinity, class, and social inequality in complex ways. What emerges from this investigation is a pattern, replete with contradiction and tension, that demonstrates how these narratives contended with the dominant, middle-class white masculine discourse that prevailed in post-war America. Mexican American manhood in California--affected by working-class conditions--responded to dominant representations that marked these Latino men as inferior in different ways, sometimes with resistance and in other instances with an acceptance of a racialized national identity. However, all Latino male discourse emphasized the importance of a patriarchal manhood in their articulations of nationhood. |
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