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Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity
The Ohio State University Press, 2020 Cloth: 978-0-8142-1431-2 | Paper: 978-0-8142-5584-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8142-7788-1 Library of Congress Classification GV867.64.R84 2020 Dewey Decimal Classification 796.3570973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In her incisive study Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity, Jennifer Domino Rudolph analyzes major league baseball’s Latin/o American players—who now make up more than twenty-five percent of MLB—as sites of undesirable surveillance due to the historical, political, and sociological weight placed on them via stereotypes around immigration, crime, masculinity, aggression, and violence. Rudolph examines the perception by media and fans of Latino baseball players and the consumption of these athletes as both social and political stand-ins for an entire culture, showing how these participants in the nationalist game of baseball exemplify tensions over race, nation, and language for some while simultaneously revealing baseball as a practice of latinidad, or pan-Latina/o/x identity, for others. By simultaneously exploring the ways in which Latino baseball players can appear both as threats to American values and the embodiment of the American Dream, and engaging with both archival research and new media representations of MLB players, Rudolph sheds new light on the current ambivalence of mainstream American media and fans towards Latin/o culture. See other books on: Baseball | Cultural & Social Aspects | Men's Studies | Nationalism and sports | Performances See other titles from The Ohio State University Press |
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Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
The Ohio State University Press, 2020
Cloth: 978-0-8142-1431-2
Paper: 978-0-8142-5584-1
eISBN: 978-0-8142-7788-1
Cloth: 978-0-8142-1431-2
Paper: 978-0-8142-5584-1
eISBN: 978-0-8142-7788-1
In her incisive study Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity, Jennifer Domino Rudolph analyzes major league baseball’s Latin/o American players—who now make up more than twenty-five percent of MLB—as sites of undesirable surveillance due to the historical, political, and sociological weight placed on them via stereotypes around immigration, crime, masculinity, aggression, and violence. Rudolph examines the perception by media and fans of Latino baseball players and the consumption of these athletes as both social and political stand-ins for an entire culture, showing how these participants in the nationalist game of baseball exemplify tensions over race, nation, and language for some while simultaneously revealing baseball as a practice of latinidad, or pan-Latina/o/x identity, for others. By simultaneously exploring the ways in which Latino baseball players can appear both as threats to American values and the embodiment of the American Dream, and engaging with both archival research and new media representations of MLB players, Rudolph sheds new light on the current ambivalence of mainstream American media and fans towards Latin/o culture.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
