Epilogue: Las Trampas Modernas
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Published:April 2015
The epilogue explores links between the early 20th Mexico City penny press and an early 21st century radio show, Erazno y la Chokolata, broadcast every afternoon in the western and southern United States. Although not especially political, the show resembles the penny press in other ways: its principal mode is satire; it mixes topical and regular features; it’s directed at working-class Mexicans; it’s chauvinistic about Mexico but cynical about the country’s political class; its “editorial” perspective is mostly male even when channeled through female personas; it mocks and celebrates working-class culture; it provides practical tips for coping with modern life; and it focuses on male insecurities about women and female complaints about men. These continuities reflect a complex history of working-class masculinities in Mexico that troubles conventional wisdom about the misogyny of Mexican popular culture, the bourgeois origins of the “civilizing process,” and working-class men as irredeemable machos.
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