Embodying Latino Masculinities: Producing Masculatinidad

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. Rodríguez PART III: PIDIERON CACAO/THEY ATE CROW: PERPETUAL POVERTY, BLACKNESS, AND FAME 'Roncamos porque podemos': Gender, Violence, Redemption, and Latinidad in the Persona and Reggaetón of Don Omar 'The Hit Man from Washington': (Trans)national Latino Masculinities in Major League Baseball