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Jorge Iber, co-author of Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance, provides commentary for CNN in association with Soledad O’Brien’s report, "Latino in America: In Her Corner." He has published and edited several books and written articles on Latinos and sport for journals such as International Journal of the History of Sport, Journal of the West, and Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Iber also served as guest editor of an issue of International ...
In this podcast interview by New Books in Sport, Jorge Iber discusses the research and issues presented in his recent coauthored book, Latinos in U.S. Sport. Iber touches on a variety of issues, including: The development of sports in the U.S. Southwest and its parallel to the use of sports in other borderlands Listen to the podcast now.
As explained previously, at least four peoples contributed to the sporting heritage of New Spain: Spaniards, Native Americans, Africans, and the offspring of these three races. Of all those who had populated Spain, the Romans and the Muslims shaped the Spanish heritage most profoundly. Among the bloodier sports that fascinated the nobility was bullfighting, a contest some scholars trace to the Romans but others attribute to the Muslims who reportedly introduced it to Spain.
In the early 20th century, sport was often viewed as a way to turn wayward Spanish speakers into “real” Americans. In his work on the use of athletics for imperial purposes, The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism, Gerald R. Gems argues that sports such as baseball played a significant role in efforts to assimilate at least some (“better”) elements of the disparate groups that Americans encountered throughout the world during the latter part of the 19th century and the ...
Hugo Pérez was one of the best soccer players in the North American Soccer League, but when the association folded, he played indoor soccer until he could, hopefully, join the U.S. national team for the 1990 World Cup. 108 When he was excluded from the national squad, it caused much controversy and raised the possibility that Latino soccer players were being slighted by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). So the purpose of LASCA became, according to Fonseca, “to call ...
During the Great Depression, Latino immigrants struggling to survive in hard times viewed boxing as a path toward economic advancement. Latino immigrants struggling to survive in hard times also viewed boxing as a path toward economic advancement. Born in 1913 in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, at a time when boxing was banned on the island, Escobar trained in clandestine gyms until boxing was legalized in 1927.
