[Students] Latinos in Sports - Nov. 25th at 12pm in Hall of Languages 203

[TAMU-Commerce Students]

Latinos in Sports - "Brown Bodies in the Big Leagues: A Conversation on Latinos in the NFL and MLB"

Date:   November 25, 2013

Time:   12:00p-1:30p

Location:   Hall of Languages 203

How have Latinos impacted the history and development of two of the largest sports organizations in the world, the NFL and the MLB? Two leading scholars of Latino pop culture and history offer a sustained scholarly conversation that seeks to answer this question. As the Latino/a demographic continues to expand in the U.S., Professors González and Iber offer a thought-provoking event that reveals how these popular sports provide a window into the history of the Latino/a experience in America. 

This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Jorge Iber is Associate Dean in the Student Division of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of History at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on the social significance of the history of Latinos/Latinas in U.S. sport. He teaches a variety of courses, such as U.S. Sports and Recreation, Texas History, and Mexican American History. His latest work (co-authored) is Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity and Acceptance (Human Kinetics, 2011) and is currently at work on More than Just Peloteros (forthcoming Texas Tech UP, 2013).

Dr. Christopher González is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Commerce where he teaches 20th- and 21st-century literatures of the U.S. He is co-author of Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Current projects include a contribution to the "Contemporary Latino Authors and Directors" series (Ohio State UP) on the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Junot Díaz, and a book-length examination of the works of the comics artist Gilbert Hernandez (UP of Mississippi).


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Dr. Christopher González | Assistant Professor of English
Department of Literature and Languages
Chris.Gonzalez at tamuc.edu  
 
Texas A&M University-Commerce
P.O. Box 3011 | Commerce, TX 75429-3011
Tel. 903.886.5277 | Fax: 903.886.5980 | www.tamuc.edu
 


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