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Mexican Americans and sports : a reader on athletics and barrio life
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ISBN: 1299053238 1603445013 9781603445016 9781299053236 9781585445523 1585445525 9781585445516 1585445517 Year: 2007 Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press,

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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.


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Sports and the racial divide : African American and Latino experience in an era of change
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ISBN: 9781604730142 9781617030468 Year: 2008 Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi

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With essays by Ron Briley, Michael Ezra, Sarah K. Fields, Billy Hawkins, Jorge Iber, Kurt Kemper, Michael E. Lomax, Samuel O. Regalado, Richard Santillan, and Maureen Smith This anthology explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, and sports and analyzes the forces that shaped the African American and Latino sports experience in post-World War II America. Contributors reveal that sports often reinforced dominant ideas about race and racial supremacy but that at other times sports became a platform for addressing racial and social injustices. The African American sports experience represente

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