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Mexican Americans and sports : a reader on athletics and barrio life / edited by Jorge Iber and Samuel O. Regalado.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican American athletes--Social conditions.
- Mexican American athletes.
- Mexican Americans--Recreation.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican Americans--Sports.
- Sports--United States--History.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For at least a century, across the United States, Mexican American athletes have participated in community-based, interscholastic, and professional sports. Mexican Americans and Sports contributes to the emerging understanding of the value of sport to minority populations in communities across the nation North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), the most prominent interdisciplinary organization that is, in spite of its name, quite global, named MEXICAN AMERICANS AND SPORTS: A READER ON ATHLETICS AND BARRIO LIFE "Anthology of the Year."-- from author, May 2008.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Athletics and Chicano/a Life, 1930-2005""; ""The Foot Runners Conquer Mexico and Texas: Endurance Racing, Indigenismo, and Nationalism""; ""Peloteros in Paradise: Mexican American Baseball and Oppositional Politics in Southern California, 1930-1950""; ""Los Heroes del Domingo: Soccer, Borders, and Social Spaces in Great Lakes Mexican Communities, 1940-1970""; ""Wearing the Red, White, and Blue Trunks of Aztlán: Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales and the Convergence of American and Chicano Nationalism""
- ""On-field Foes and Racial Misconceptions: The 1961 Donna Redskins and Their Drive to the Texas State Football Championship""""Read All about It! The Spanish-language Press, the Dodgers, and the Giants, 1958-1982""; ""Raza Boxing: Community, Identity, and Hybridity in the 1960's and 1970's in Southern California""; ""Beating the Odds: Mexican American Distance Runners in Texas, 1950-1995""; ""Advance at Your Own Risk: Latinas, Families, and Collegiate Softball""; ""Invisible Identity: Mexican American Sport and Chicano Historiography""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-05323-8
- 1-60344-501-3
- OCLC:
- 644982172
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