Workbook
For Mexican (American) Men
A Workbook on Machismo, Jefatura, and the Man You're Building Between Two Countries
Your grandfather had a word for what a man should be. You are allowed to write your own.
For the Mexican American man navigating the gap between the machismo and jefatura model he inherited and the man he is becoming — ready to decide what he keeps and what he authors for himself.
The Name It First Experience
You inherited a definition of manhood before you were old enough to question it. Machismo. Jefatura. The provider who does not break. Some of it fits. Some does not. Thirteen chapters surface the specific scripts you inherited, trace them to their historical roots, name what rigid adherence has cost, and build the financial, labor, and communication clauses of a manhood you are authoring. The output is not a rejection of where you came from. It is Your New Jefatura Manifesto — a signed document naming the man you are consciously choosing to be.
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Sample questions
- What do you call the rules about manhood you absorbed before you could question them — and which of them do you still follow?
- When something was hard and you could not show it, what did you do with it — and where did you learn that was the move?
- What is the one thing the New Jefatura Manifesto needs to say about the kind of man you are choosing to be?
Research basis
Phinney on ethnic-racial identity development / Anzaldua on borderlands consciousness / Connell on hegemonic masculinity / Ferdman and Gallegos on Latino identity development / Bowen on family systems and patriarchal structures.
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