Emilio Balderas’ thesis draws upon interviews and experiences with system-impacted Mexican men in the Chicagoland area in order to advance our understanding of masculinity as it is experienced and enacted by these men in their communities. Emilio engages in the work of auto- and collaborative ethnography, presenting the reader with vignettes of life in the Rand Grove housing complex and teasing out an appreciation of the way masculinity, death, and time interact with one another amongst the population in question. Challenging the linear understanding of time that underpins so much of revolutionary critical social theory, Emilio asks: what would critique look like if we understood time as these men and boys do? How would an appreciation of masculinity in its intimate relationship with death challenge the telos of revolutionary theory?