Deportes - The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora

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.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Deportes, Americanization, and Mexican Sporting Culture
2. El Boxeo, Immigration, and the “Great Brown Hope”
3. Playing Béisbol Across Borders
4. Forging Transnational Sporting Networks
5. Becoming Good Neighbors through Wartime Sports
6. Sporting a New Identity in Postwar America
Conclusion
Index

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Josa (C) M Alamillo, Jose M Alamillo, José M Alamillo, Jose M. Alamillo, José M. Alamillo
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781978813663
• ISBN: 978-1-978813-66-3
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Amerikanische Geschichte, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Ethnic Issues, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico