Reviewed by Anju Reejhsinghani | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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Mexican Americans and Sports: A Reader on Athletics and Barrio Life. Edited by Jorge Iber and Samuel O. Regalado. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. viii + 262 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

This collection of articles is intended to fill a major gap in the historiography of Mexican Americans: their participation in community-based, interscholastic, and professional sports. Defining Mexican Americans as "people who were born or reared in the United States but who trace their ancestry to Mexico" (p. 14), the editors have nonetheless included one article on Mexican nationals competing in the United States—the famed Tarahumaran distance runners of the 1920s—and offer little on women in sports; only one of the nine articles, Katherine M. Jamieson's exploration of Latina collegiate softball players, is dedicated to the topic. While a variety of sports are considered, most essays are set in Texas or California from the 1920s to the present. Despite these structural limitations, Mexican Americans and Sports is an admirable addition to the tiny but growing corpus of literature on U.S.-based Latinos in organized sports.

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