Latinos and Latinas in American Sport: Stories Beyond Peloteros

Latinos and Latinas in American Sport: Stories Beyond Peloteros expands upon the significance of sport in U.S. Latino communities by looking at sports as diverse as drag racing and community softball, the rise of Latinas in high school basketball, and the role of Latinos in protesting social injustice through sport.

Although the Latino/a population of the United States has significantly expanded since the 1960s, an analysis of this population’s place in the history of American sport has, unt...