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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jorge Iber |
ISBN: | 9780736087261 0736087265 |
OCLC Number: | 676063768 |
Description: | ix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
Contents: | "Just how does one say 'Woo Pig Sooie' in Spanish?": Uncovering the presence of Latino athletes in U.S. sports history -- Games of Spaniards, pre-Columbians, and the peoples of New Spain, 1500-1821 -- Games Mexicans played, 1821-1880s -- Getting in the game: Latino-style American sport, 1880s-1930 -- Sport and community life in the Great Depression and World War II, 1930-1950 -- Expanding opportunities from high schools to the national stage, 1950-1965 -- Latinos and sport during an era of social activism, 1965-1980. |
Responsibility: | Jorge Iber [and others]. |
Abstract:
Latinos in U.S. Sport presents a long-overdue look at the history of Latino participation in multiple facets of American sport and provides a balanced history of the contribution of Spanish-speaking people to the world of U.S. sport.
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