When Mexicans Could Play Ball : : Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928–1945 / / Ignacio M. García.
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 Mexic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Punch Heard ’round the Barrio
- Chapter 1. A Coach Comes to Sidney Lanier
- Chapter 2. Mexicans Can Play, but Not Everyone Is Pleased
- Chapter 3. Lanier Makes Its Run at State and Finds Its First Stars
- Chapter 4. Sidney Lanier: An American-Mexican Landscape
- Chapter 5. War Comes to the West Side, and Lanierites Respond
- Chapter 6. Adjusting to War and Getting Back to State
- Chapter 7. The Voks Finally Make It to the Top
- Chapter 8. On the Summit Looking Up
- Chapter 9. The Rodríguez Boys Must Be Stopped
- Chapter 10. An Era Comes to an End, but a School Remains
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index