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¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues
[Hardback - 2020]
margaret salazar-porzio
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Category: Sports
Sub-category: Sports - Others
Additional Category: Latin American History - Sociology
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press | ISBN: 9781944466374 | Pages: 148
Shipping Weight: .873 | Dimensions: 8.89 x .64 x 11.32 inches

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The dual-language (English and Spanish) ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas takes readers on a journey into the heart and history of U.S. Latina/o baseball. The extraordinary stories of Latinas/os alongside the artifacts of their remarkable lives demonstrate the historic role baseball has played as a social and cultural force within Latino communities across the nation for over a century and how Latinos in particular have influenced and changed the game. Latinas/os have celebrated a shared cultural heritage, made a living, and fought for rights and justice through baseball. These stories represent experiences to which many people can relate: how one becomes part of a community; how the game can bring people together regardless of race, class, and gender; and how fans can participate in the culture of the sport as easily as players can on the field. Through eight thematic chapters, the authors illustrate how baseball has provided an important platform from which to celebrate and challenge what it means to be American. Each chapter features stories and artifacts from the Smithsonian exhibits of the same name paired with voices from the community of scholars, players, and enthusiasts who have contributed to the larger pan-Smithsonian Latinos and Baseball collecting and exhibition initiative.  The variety of stories and objects included in this volume brings our seemingly disparate pasts and present together to reveal how baseball is more than simply a game. The history of Latinos and baseball is this quintessential American story.

About the Author

Margaret Salazar-Porzio is Curator of Latina/o history and culture at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and a specialist in twentieth-century visual and material culture of the Western United States, Pacific Rim, and Mexico. Formerly an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia University Law School, she has received numerous research fellowships. Salazar-Porzio was also a primary education teacher in Los Angeles, California, where she received a local Teacher of the Year award (2004). 

Joan Fragaszy Troyano is Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution and a member of the Many Voices, One Nation curatorial team at the National Museum of American History. A historian of immigration, visual culture, and public understandings of the past, her public history career includes museum exhibitions and education across the Smithsonian, as well as scholarly communication and digital projects with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

Lauren Safranek is a curatorial assistant at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for the Many Voices, One Nation exhibition. Her scholarly work focuses on material culture and storytelling around recent immigration to the United States, and her public history products include exhibition development and curation, educational materials, public outreach, and the award-winning citizenship education website, Preparing for the Oath. In 2012 she was a Goldman Sachs Junior Fellow at the National Museum of American History.

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