Before ChicanoUncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the formation of Latino identity In the first ever book length study of Latino manhood before the Civil Rights Movement, Before Chicano examines Mexican American print culture to explore how conceptions of citizenship and manhood developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The year 1848 saw both the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the U. S. Mexican War and