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A Sentimental Education for the Working Man: The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910

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In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico Town. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press equipped working-class readers with alternative masculine scripts that were more realistic about their lives, more responsive to their concerns, and more representative in their culture than anything else proposed by elite social reformers and Porfirian officials. The penny press shared elite concerns concerning the destructive vices of working-class men, and urged them to be devoted husbands, responsible citizens, and diligent staff; nevertheless it extensively utilized biting satire to recast negative portrayals of working-class masculinity and to overturn established social hierarchies. On this challenge to the “macho” stereotype of working-class Mexican men, Buffington shows how the penny press contributed to the formation of working-class consciousness, facilitated the imagining of a Mexican national community, and validated working-class men as brand new citizens.

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