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Mexican Americans and Sports
. Ed(S): Iber, Jorge; Regalado, Samuel O.
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Description for Mexican Americans and Sports
Paperback. Analyzes sporting experiences and organizations, as well as their impact on communal and individual lives. This title features contributions that spotlight diverse fields of athletic endeavor: baseball, football, soccer, boxing, track, and softball. It is useful for those interested in sports history. Editor(s): Iber, Jorge; Regalado, Samuel O. Num Pages: 272 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; JFSL1; JHBS; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
For at least a century, across the United States, Mexican American athletes have actively participated in community-based, interscholastic, and professional sports. The people of the ranchos and the barrios have used sport for recreation, leisure, and community bonding. Until now, though, relatively few historians have focused on the sports participation of Latinos, including the numerically preponderant Mexican Americans. This volume gathers an important collection of such studies, arranged in rough chronological order, spanning the period from the late 1920s through the present. They survey and analyze sporting experiences and organizations, as well as their impact on communal and individual lives. ... Read more
For at least a century, across the United States, Mexican American athletes have actively participated in community-based, interscholastic, and professional sports. The people of the ranchos and the barrios have used sport for recreation, leisure, and community bonding. Until now, though, relatively few historians have focused on the sports participation of Latinos, including the numerically preponderant Mexican Americans. This volume gathers an important collection of such studies, arranged in rough chronological order, spanning the period from the late 1920s through the present. They survey and analyze sporting experiences and organizations, as well as their impact on communal and individual lives. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585445523
SKU
V9781585445523
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About . Ed(S): Iber, Jorge; Regalado, Samuel O.
JORGE IBER is the chair of the Department of History at Texas Tech University; his Ph.D. is from the University of Utah. SAMUEL O. REGALADO received his Ph.D. from Washington State University and is a professor of history at California State University - Stanislaus.
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