When Mexicans Could Play Ball: Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928-1945

by Ignacio M Garcaia and Ignacio M. García

Book Overview

Winner, Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2014

In 1939, a team of short, scrappy kids from a vocational school established specifically for Mexican Americans became the high school basketball champions of San Antonio, Texas. Their win, and the ensuing riot it caused, took place against a backdrop of shifting and conflicted attitudes toward Mexican Americans and American nationalism in the WWII era. "Only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477302123
• ISBN13: 9781477302125
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"