Alberto Varon is Associate Professor of English and Latino Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of Before Chicano: Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 (2018).
"Varon examines an emerging hybrid synthesis of U.S. and Mexican
republicanism as well as the instabilities inherent to a
malecentered conception of citizenship."
*Society for US Intellectual History*
"Brings to bear archival work and print culture studies to uncover
and analyze the cultural, historical, and literary texts involved
in the making of Mexican American manhood and its correlation to
notions of citizenship. Dr. Varon studies Spanish-language
newspapers and political proclamations; fugitive narratives and
short-story collections (some here analyzed at length for the first
time); under-studied memoirs and long-ignored novels; and canonical
figures in early Chicana/o literary histories. Dr. Varon expertly
combines several fieldsincluding American and Critical Race
studies, recovery and archival work, and American literary
scholarship and Chicana/o and Latino/a studiesto render the books
study of the past presciently critical of contemporary debates
about immigration, citizenship, and the presumed rights of Mexican
Americans."
*Jesse Alemán,co-editor of The Latino Nineteenth Century*
"Varons groundbreaking, beautifully written literary and
intellectual history of Mexican-American manhood illuminates the
ways in which Mexican Americans made claims to the public sphere by
engaging with questions of citizenship, racialization, and
transnational imagined communities. The book seamlessly brings
together the rich literatures on feminism, nationalism, political
theory, and queer theory in order to offer a brilliant, timely, and
compelling historical narrative of belonging."
*Raúl Coronado,author of A World Not to Come: A History of Latino
Writing and Print Culture*
"While other authors, like J. F. Perea, George Fredrickson, Jeanne
Powers, and Eladio Gómez, have studied questions of Mexican
American citizenship prior to the Chicano movement, Varon’s
creative approach focusing on manhood, as well as the breadth of
the period studied, constitute a welcome contribution to the
development of knowledge in this field of study."
*Chiricú Journal*
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