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Friday Night Fighter
Friday Night Fighter relives a lost moment in American postwar history, when boxing ruled as one of the nation's most widely televised sports. During the 1950s and 1960s, viewers tuned in weekly, sometimes even daily, to watch widely-recognized fighters engage in primordial battle, with the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports Friday Night Fights being the most popular fight show. Troy Rondinone follows the dual narratives of the Friday Night Fights show and the individual story of Gaspar Indio Ortega, a boxer who appeared on primetime network television more than almost any other boxer in history. From humble beginnings growing up poor in Tijuana, Mexico, Ortega personified the phenomenon of postwar boxing at its greatest, appearing before audiences of millions to battle the biggest names of the time, such as Carmen Basilio, Tony DeMarco, Chico Vejar, Benny Kid Paret, Emile Griffith, Kid Gavilan, Florentino Fernandez, and Luis Manuel Rodriguez. Rondinone explores the factors contributing to the success of televised boxing, including the rise of television entertainment, the role of a reality blood sport, Cold War masculinity, changing attitudes toward race in America, and the influence of organized crime. At times evoking the drama and spectacle of the Friday Night Fights themselves, this volume is a lively examination of a time in history when Americans crowded around their sets to watch the main event.
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Playing Across Borders: Transnational Sports and Identities in Southern California and Mexico, 1930–1945
This article examines the local and transnational dimensions of sports in Southern California through the activities of the Mexican Athletic Association of Southern California (MAASC) from the Great Depression to the end of World War II. This amateur athletic organization promoted sports in the barrios and colonias throughout Southern California and forged transnational ties with the Mexican government and its sports federation. MAASC and its related activities reflected two competing historical trajectories that have been subjects of debate in Chicano historiography. MAASC sports simultaneously reinvigorated transnational ties with Mexico that emphasized aMéxico de afueraidentity and contributed to the making of a Mexican American identity that connected immigrants to Southern California and American society in general. Ultimately, both impulses helped to instill a new political confidence among MAASC members to challenge the Los Angeles Department of Playground and Recreation's paternalistic approach toward the Mexican community.
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Encounters with Jesus `El Matador' Chávez: In and Out of the Ring
This article considers sport as a locus for US Latino ethnoracial identity formations. To suggest a dialogue between everyday practices and academic discourses, it first examines professional boxing on a theoretical level as a network of spatio-bodily power dynamics; it then discusses the life story and legal case of world champion Jesus 'El Matador' Chavez. A Mexican national who grew up in the USA, Chavez was twice deported before winning his legal case against the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in November 2000. Through his story, the article problematizes identity formations within various spatial frameworks - such as the city, the prison, the ring and USA-Mexico national borders. It also considers how the boxing body is both linked to power relations and how, through its own agency, it contests those relations. Ultimately, Chavez's case exemplifies the fluidity of identity formations, the incongruency of many identity signifiers, and how, simultaneously, identity formations have a necessary strategic and political function. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Vamos Taximaroa! Mexican/Chicano Soccer Associations and Transnational/Translocal Communities, 1967–2002
This article provides a social history of the most prominent soccer clubs and leagues by people of Mexican descent in Chicago and Detroit between 1967 and 2002. It analyzes the impact of sport clubs and leisure activities in the formation of Mexican American communities. Based on oral history interviews and using concrete examples, the article proposes that soccer clubs have constituted a way to articulate recreational and leisure activities, gain access to public parks and facilities, and succeeded in creating a social place otherwise denied to Mexicanos in the Great Lakes by persistent patterns of segregation and discrimination. Sport clubs have also played a role in the formation of community leadership, the construction and affirmation of a Mexican identity based on the US experience, and the expression of civic and social needs. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Philadelphia Daily News Stu Bykofsky column
Henry Nicholas, head of National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees 1199C, says, \"He's our educational candidate.\" Thomas works at Sankofa Freedom Academy, a six-year-old K-12 charter in Frankford where he is a teacher, associate dean and athletic director.
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Afterword to the Updated Edition
Many novelists tell us that as they write they’re not always sure what their characters will do next. Even the conclusion may remain hidden from the authors’ view until late in the day. I think these writers mean that after they’ve set their opening scenes, started things in motion, and introduced their characters, that only then, in the crucible of writing itself, does the full story slowly emerge in their imaginations.
Writing about the past is often more like this than academic historians are comfortable admitting. We have a professional stake in the illusion of control—that our books and
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The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y., On the Bright Side column
About 70 students from Oneonta City School District will be among the fifth- and sixth-graders on the trip to Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia organized for decades by Eastern Travel/Oneonta Bus Lines.
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The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., George Diaz column
Penn State's vice president of student affairs resigned in 2007 over \"philosophical differences\" that were later revealed to involve Paterno's over-zealous reach involving disciplinary decisions with his players. [...] Paterno should be remembered as a good man with one tragic flaw:
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