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When Mexicans could play ball : basketball, race, and identity in San Antonio, 1928-1945 /
<P>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 tow...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The punch heard 'round the barrio
- A coach comes to Sidney Lanier
- Mexicans can play, but not everyone is pleased
- Lanier makes its run at State and finds its first stars
- Sidney Lanier: an American-Mexican landscape
- War comes to the West Side, and Lanierites respond
- Adjusting to war and getting back to State
- The Voks finally make it to the top
- On the summit looking up
- The Rodríguez boys must be stopped
- An era comes to an end, but a school remains.