Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Football and Patria, Ten Years Later: Sports Nationalism as a Commodity....Pages 29-44
The Antinational Game? An Exploration of Women’s Soccer in Latin America....Pages 45-65
(F)Utopias: The Nationalist Uses of Soccer in Costa Rica....Pages 67-84
Race, Sports, and Regionalism in the Construction of Colombian Nationalism....Pages 85-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
The Players of the Brazilian Football Team as a Model of Culture: Life Stories Mediated by Television News....Pages 109-124
Nationalism and Public Policies of Sports in Brazil....Pages 125-139
The Nation in the Strike Zone and Reality at Bat: Bodies, Voices, and Spaces of Cuban Baseball in Sport Documentaries....Pages 141-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
“Can I please have a ramp with that Gold Medal?”: Colombian Paralympics and the Prosthetic Lim(b)inality of Nation....Pages 163-179
Women Boxers and Nationalism in Mexico....Pages 181-200
“You Have the Right to Surf!”: Riding Waves of Modernity, Decolonization, and National Identity in Peru....Pages 201-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Guillermo Vilas, “Tennis’s Sexiest Man”: The Argentine Dictatorship in the US Tennis Press, 1974–1982....Pages 227-247
The Meanings of Manu: Style, Race, and Globalization in the Culture of Basketball....Pages 249-268
Latino Soccer, Nationalism, and Border Zones in the United States....Pages 269-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-307