Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean

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eBook - ePub

Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean

About this book

Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean is the most comprehensive overview to date of the development of modern sports in Latin America. This new book illustrates how and why sport has become a central part of the political, economic, and social life of the region and the repercussions of its role. This highly readable volume is composed of articles on a wide variety of sports-basketball, baseball, volleyball, cricket, soccer, and equestrian events-in countries and regions throughout Latin America, including Mexico, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. Broad in scope, this volume explores the definition of modern sport; whether sport is enslaving, liberating, or neutral; if sport reflects or challenges dominant culture; the attributes and drawbacks of professional versus amateur sport; and the difference between sport in capitalist and socialist nations. Other subjects that are addressed as they pertain to modern sport include: diffusion and globalization/internationalization; hegemony, dependency, and nationalism; politics and the state; culture, ethnicity, and race; economic class; gender; commercialization, modernization, and professionalization; health, morality, crime and vice; economics and labor productivity; and the media.

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Yes, you can access Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean by Joseph L. Arbena,David G. LaFrance in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Latin American & Caribbean History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Jaguar Books on Latin America
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 - The Catholic Church and the Origins of Soccer in Costa Rica in the Early 1900s
  9. 2 - The Case of Soccer in Early Twentieth-Century Lima
  10. 3 - Soccer Madness: Futebol in Brazil
  11. 4 - Soccer Conspiracies: Maradona, the CIA, and Popular Critique
  12. 5 - Three Kings Day in Consuelo: Cricket, Baseball, and the Cocolos in San Pedro de Macorís
  13. 6 - Labor, the State, and Professional Baseball in Mexico in the 1980s
  14. 7 - Charreada: Performance and Interpretation of an Equestrian Folk Tradition in Mexico and the United States
  15. 8 - Hosting the Summer Olympic Games: Mexico City, 1968
  16. 9 - Sport in Cuba: Castro’s Last Stand
  17. 10 - The Failure of Caribbean Integration: Lessons from Grassroots Basketball
  18. 11 - Sport in Nicaragua, 1889–1926
  19. 12 - The History of Peruvian Women’s Volleyball
  20. 13 - In Search of the Latin American Female Athlete
  21. Suggested Readings
  22. About the Editors