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When Mexicans Could Play Ball: Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928–1945
Ignacio M. García
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| #1122084 in Books | 2014-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,.96 | File type: PDF | 292 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great memories!|By Customer|I purchased this book because my father attended Lanier High School in San Antonio, Texas and played basketball for the Voks when they won state. This book was all about the trials and tribulations of all involved from family to the school administration. He passed away not knowing about the book but the pictures and stories he told me will foreve||"“Garcia's ability to move between what amounts to great sports writing as he describes the basketball games and the milieu of high school sports, and a focused history of San Antonio based on ethnographic scholarship made this manuscript very attractive
In 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 e...
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