By Jorge Iber Early in 2017, Gabe Salgado of NBC News posted an article entitled “The Top Ten Latino Sports Moments of 2016.” Among the significant instances noted were some truly remarkable athletes in sports not “normally” associated with Latinos/as by the public. For example, Salgado noted the arrival of Auston Matthews (whose mother is…
By Jorge E. Moraga *Author’s Note: For the spring 2016 semester, I was fortunate to be assigned ‘The Cultural Politics of Sport’, an upper division course housed in the Department of CCGRS at Wazzu. As a new teaching prep, I chose to pivot our class around American football: a sport that sells campus identity, ensures…
by Jorge Iber, PhD Texas Tech University In my last post for this blog, I mentioned that the story of Mike Torrez (former MLB pitcher and a native of Topeka) is one that could help shed light on the historical and current role as athletes of Latinos/as both at the local (Midwestern, in this case)…
By Jorge Iber, PhD Texas Tech University In my first two posts for this blog, the intention was to introduce the readers to the significance of the role of Latinos/as in US sports history, and then, to provide but one example of an individual whose life and career (Coach E.C. Lerma from Duval County, Texas)…
By: Jorge Iber, PhD Texas Tech University In my first post, I provided an argument for the inclusion of Mexican Americans (and other Latinos/as) within the broader framework of the history of US sports. In that essay, I focused on the story of the only team from the Rio Grande Valley to ever win a…
Sport in American History 