ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes the development of a new Chicano/Latino men's studies and begin with an overview and critique of The New Men's Studies (TNMS). Ironically, the Chicano movement and Chicano/Latino scholarship have been gender stratified and have emphasized men as the dominant figures, but there have been few serious attempts to examine either masculinity and machismo or the extent to which Chicano/Latino scholarship reflects particular masculinities. Like other TNMS scholars, gives only token attention to Black masculinity under the rubric of "marginalization" and ignores Chicano/Latino masculinity altogether. The conceptions of machismo held by the Latino men in our study failed to support the assumption that the ideology of machismo is somehow characteristic of the Mexican working class. Perhaps the most glaring omission in research and writing on gender and masculinities is the absence either of research and writing on Latino gay men or of attempts to articulate a Latino male gay voice.
