Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America

Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America: An Introduction; Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin, and Juan Poblete PART I: SPORTS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM 1. Football and Patria, Ten Years Later: Sports Nationalism as a Commodity; Pablo Alabarces 2. The Anti-National Game? An Exploration of Women's Soccer in Latin America; Joshua Nadel 3. (F)Utopias: The Nationalist Uses of Soccer in Costa Rica Sergio; Villena Fiengo 4. Race, Sports, and Regionalism in the Construction of Colombian Nationalism; Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste PART II: SPORTS AS INTRA-NATIONAL MEDIATION 5. The Player of the Brazilian Football Team as a Model of Culture: Life Stories Mediated by Television News; Vander Casaqui 6. Nationalism and Sport Policies in Brazil; Renata Toledo and Maria Tarcisa Silva Bega 7. The Nation in the Strike Zone and Reality at Bat: Bodies, Voices and Spaces of Cuban Baseball in Sport Documentaries; Juan Carlos Rodríguez PART III: SPORTS AND ALTERITY 8. "Can I Please Have a Ramp with that Gold Medal?": Colombian Paralympics and the Prosthetic Lim(b)inality of Nation; Chloe Rutter-Jensen 9. Women Boxers and Nationalism in Mexico; Hortensia Moreno: 10. "You Have the Right to Surf!": Riding Waves of Modernity, Decolonization, and National Identity in Peru; Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee PART IV: SPORTS AS TRANSNATIONAL MEDIATION 11. Guillermo Vilas, "Tennis's Sexiest Man": The Argentine Dictatorship in the US Tennis Press 1974-1982; Robert McKee Irwin 12. The Meanings of Manu: Style, Race, and Globalization in the Culture of Basketball; Yago Colás 13. Latino Soccer, Nationalism, and Border Zones in the US; Juan Poblete