When Mexicans Could Play Ball : Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928-1945 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: García, Ignacio M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sports.
Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > Social life and customs.
Mexican Americans.
Basketball > Social aspects.
Basketball.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Moeurs et coutumes.
Americains d'origine mexicaine > Texas > San Antonio.
Sports > Texas > San Antonio > Histoire.
Basket-ball > Aspect social > Texas > San Antonio.
Basket-ball > Texas > San Antonio.
Hispanic American basketball players > Texas > San Antonio.
Mexican Americans > Texas > San Antonio.
Sports > Texas > San Antonio > History.
Basketball > Social aspects > Texas > San Antonio.
Basketball > Texas > San Antonio.
Texas > San Antonio.
San Antonio (Tex.) > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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