Palaces of Pain - Arenas of Mexican-American Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Palaces of Pain - Arenas of Mexican-American Dreams write by Gregory Steven Rodríguez. This book was released on 1999. Palaces of Pain - Arenas of Mexican-American Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mexican Americans and Sports
Mexican Americans and Sports - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican Americans and Sports write by Jorge Iber. This book was released on 2007. Mexican Americans and Sports available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Contributions spotlight diverse fields of athletic endeavor: baseball, football, soccer, boxing, track, and softball. Mexican Americans and Sports contributes to the emerging understanding of the value of sport to minority populations in communities throughout the United States. Those interested in sports history will benefit from the book's focus on under-studied Mexican American participation, and those interested in Mexican American history will welcome the insight into this aspect of the group's social history.
The Greatest Fight of Our Generation
The Greatest Fight of Our Generation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Greatest Fight of Our Generation write by Lewis A. Erenberg. This book was released on 2007. The Greatest Fight of Our Generation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Held on June 22, 1938, in Yankee Stadium, the second Louis-Schmeling fight sparked excitement around the globe. For all its length--the fight lasted but two minutes--it remains one of the most memorable events in boxing history and, indeed, one of the most significant sporting events ever. In this superb account, Lewis A. Erenberg offers a vivid portrait of Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, their individual careers, and their two epic fights, shedding light on what these fighters represented to their nations, and why their second bout took on such international importance. Erenberg shows how in the first fight Schmeling shocked everyone with a dramatic twelfth-round knockout of Louis, becoming a German national hero and a (unwilling) symbol of Aryan superiority. In fact, the second fight was seen around the world in symbolic terms--as a match between Nazism and American democracy. Erenberg discusses how Louis' dramatic first-round victory was a devastating blow to Hitler, who turned on Schmeling and, during the war, had the boxer (then serving as a paratrooper) sent on a series of dangerous missions. Louis, meanwhile, went from being a hero of his race--"Our Joe"--to the first black champion embraced by all Americans, black and white, an important step forward in United States race relations. Erenberg also describes how, after the war, the two boxers became symbols of German-American reconciliation. With Schmeling as a Coca Cola executive, and Louis down on his luck, the former foes became friends, and when Louis died, Schmeling helped pay for his funeral. Here then is a stirring and insightful account of one of the great moments in boxing history, a confrontation that provided global theater on an epic scale.
Prizefighting and Civilization
Prizefighting and Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prizefighting and Civilization write by David C. LaFevor. This book was released on 2020. Prizefighting and Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Prizefighting and Civilization: A Cultural History of Boxing, Race, and Masculinity in Mexico and Cuba, 1840-1940, historian David C. LaFevor traces the history of pugilism in Mexico and Cuba from its controversial beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century through its exponential rise in popularity during the early twentieth century. A divisive subculture that was both a profitable blood sport and a contentious public spectacle, boxing provides a unique vantage point from which LaFevor examines the deeper historical evolution of national identity, everyday normative concepts of masculinity and race, and an expanding and democratizing public sphere in both Mexico and Cuba, the United States' closest Latin American neighbors. Prizefighting and Civilization explores the processes by which boxing--once considered an outlandish purveyor of low culture--evolved into a nationalized pillar of popular culture, a point of pride that transcends gender, race, and class.
Whitewashed Adobe
Whitewashed Adobe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Whitewashed Adobe write by William F. Deverell. This book was released on 2004-06-03. Whitewashed Adobe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Whitewashed Abode' explores how the identity of Los Angeles has evolved, particularly how the city has made cultural appropriations from Mexico over the past 150 years.
