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. ...
For at least a century, across the United States, Mexican American athletes have actively participated in community-based, interscholastic, and profes...
"Hispanics in the American West" portrays the daily lives, struggles, and triumphs of Spanish-speaking peoples from the arrival of Spanish conquistadors to the present, highlighting such defining moments as the years of Mexican sovereignty, the Mexican-American War, the coming of the railroad, the great Mexican migration in the early 20th century, the Great Depression, World War II, the Chicano Movement that arose in the mid-1960s, and more.
Coverage includes Hispanics of all nationalities (not just Mexican, but Cuban, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan, among others) and ranges...
"Hispanics in the American West" portrays the daily lives, struggles, and triumphs of Spanish-speaking peoples from the arrival of Spanish conquist...
"A microcosm of the significance of sport to community history anywhere" Although the Latino/a population of the United States has exploded since the 1960s, an analysis of its place in the history of American sport has, until recently, been sorely underrepresented. The thoughtful and coherent essays in "More Than Just Peloteros" demonstrate that participation in sport and recreation develops identity and involvement in the lives of Spanish-speaking people throughout what is now the United States.The articles feature accounts of eras and events as varied as the Latino experience itself,...
"A microcosm of the significance of sport to community history anywhere" Although the Latino/a population of the United States has exploded since...
"A microcosm of the significance of sport to community history anywhere" Although the Latino/a population of the United States has exploded since the 1960s, an analysis of its place in the history of American sport has, until recently, been sorely underrepresented. The thoughtful and coherent essays in "More Than Just Peloteros" demonstrate that participation in sport and recreation develops identity and involvement in the lives of Spanish-speaking people throughout what is now the United States.The articles feature accounts of eras and events as varied as the Latino experience itself,...
"A microcosm of the significance of sport to community history anywhere" Although the Latino/a population of the United States has exploded since...
