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The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
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Artikel-Nr:
9781978813670
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.07.2020
Seiten:
294
Autor:
José M Alamillo
Gewicht:
544 g
Format:
231x157x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
JOSE M. ALAMILLO is professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University Channel Islands (Camarillo, CA) and author of Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town and co-author of Latinos in U.S. Sport. He is a consultant on Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History exhibition on Latinos and Latinas in baseball.
Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. They proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels.
Introduction1. Deportes, Americanization, and Mexican Sporting Culture2. El Boxeo, Immigration, and the "Great Brown Hope"3. Playing Béisbol Across Borders4. Forging Transnational Sporting Networks5. Becoming Good Neighbors through Wartime Sports6. Sporting a New Identity in Postwar AmericaConclusionIndex