Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Football and Patria , Ten Years Later: Sports Nationalism as a Commodity

Chapter 3 The Antinational Game? An Exploration of Women’s Soccer in Latin America

Chapter 4 (F)Utopias: The Nationalist Uses of Soccer in Costa Rica

Chapter 5 Race, Sports, and Regionalism in the Construction of Colombian Nationalism

Chapter 6 The Players of the Brazilian Football Team as a Model of Culture: Life Stories Mediated by Television News

Chapter 7 Nationalism and Public Policies of Sports in Brazil

Chapter 8 The Nation in the Strike Zone and Reality at Bat: Bodies, Voices, and Spaces of Cuban Baseball in Sport Documentaries

Chapter 9 “Can I please have a ramp with that Gold Medal?”: Colombian Paralympics and the Prosthetic Lim(b)inality of Nation

Chapter 10 Women Boxers and Nationalism in Mexico

Chapter 11 “You Have the Right to Surf!”: Riding Waves of Modernity, Decolonization, and National Identity in Peru

Chapter 12 Guillermo Vilas, “Tennis’s Sexiest Man”: The Argentine Dictatorship in the US Tennis Press, 1974–1982

Chapter 13 The Meanings of Manu: Style, Race, and Globalization in the Culture of Basketball

Chapter 14 Latino Soccer, Nationalism, and Border Zones in the United States