Buy this book on-line Ignacio M. Garcia : When Mexicans Could Play Ball: Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928-1945University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 2013 ISBN 0292753772
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. BW3 - An ex-library first edition (stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, some scattered light scratches, rubbing, and light smudges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, library info stamped and cardholder adhered on the back fixed endpaper, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 270 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. n 1939, a team of short, scrappy kids from a vocational school established specifically for Mexican Americans became the high school basketball champions of San Antonio, Texas. Their win, and the ensuing riot it caused, took place against a backdrop of shifting and conflicted attitudes toward Mexican Americans and American nationalism in the WWII era. "Only when the Mexicans went from perennial runners-up to champs," García writes, "did the emotions boil over." The first sports book to look at Mexican American basketball specifically, When Mexicans Could Play Ball is also a revealing study of racism and cultural identity formation in Texas. Using personal interviews, newspaper articles, and game statistics to create a compelling narrative, as well as drawing on his experience as a sports writer, García takes us into the world of San Antonio's Sidney Lanier High School basketball team, the Voks, which became a two-time state championship team under head coach William Carson "Nemo" Herrera. An alumnus of the school himself, García investigates the school administrators' project to Americanize the students, Herrera's skillful coaching, and the team's rise to victory despite discrimination and violence from other teams and the world outside of the school. Ultimately, García argues, through their participation and success in basketball at Lanier, the Voks players not only learned how to be American but also taught their white counterparts to question long-held assumptions about Mexican Americans.. Ex-Library. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Ignacio M. Garcia : When Mexicans Could Play Ball: Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928-1945. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, out of print books, libri antichi, rare books and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |