The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)—from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas—revealing how it has made, and remade, American life.Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest ballparks to the present, stadiums have also functioned as public squares. Politicians have used them to cultivate loyalty to the status quo, while activist...

Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships nurtured by Afro-Cubans and black Americans helped to shape the political strategies of both groups as they attempted to overcome a shared history of oppression and enslavement.

Malapata is a pirate who does everything wrong. No matter what you do, everything will always turn out the other way around. But it is what happens sometimes when one is rude, capricious and when one does not know how to share. Malapata is a pirate who does everything wrong. No matter what you do, everything will always turn out the other way around. But it is what happens sometimes when one is rude, capricious and when one does not know how to share.

Charlie wants to be a superhero and gets an incredible costume. He decides that he will be called Super F after the flies he loves so much. But can a superhero wear glasses? And what will his superpower be? Charlie has no doubt: he wants to be invisible!

Freighted with meaning, “el barrio” is both place and metaphor for Latino populations in the United States. Though it has symbolized both marginalization and robust and empowered communities, the construct of el barrio has often reproduced static understandings of Latino life; they fail to account for recent demographic shifts in urban centers such as New York, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles, and in areas outside of these historic communities.Beyond El Barrio features new scholars...

The story of Texas’s impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understanding of sports and society in the state and the nation as a whole.In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in popularity, and the proliferation of television enabled people across...

Two groups of people live separated by a barbed wire fence. One group has plenty of water and the other plenty of bread, but they have difficulty sharing their resources with each other. What happens when a third group arrives that has neither? Created with the support of Amnesty International Spain.

Charlie desperately wants Iris to notice him. But whatever he does just doesn't seem to work. One day when Iris shows up in class with glasses Charlie thinks she'll surely see him now. But no, Iris's glasses have just made everyone look at her! What if Charlie were to wear glasses… would Iris finally notice him then?

Charlie is going camping with the school and his classmate, Big Louis, the biggest boy in his class, is his partner. Ever-prepared Charlie has packed lots of things in his backpack. As soon as they arrive Charlie accidentally hits Big Louis on the foot with a hammer but… fortunately Charlie has all the essentials to make a cast for it. Unfortunately for Big Louis, he puts the cast on the wrong foot! As the day goes on, with one mishap after another, Big Louis asks the teacher to change par...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic tra...

In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, but by the late 1920s, the wildly popular song had helped to make it synonymous with Brazilia...

Black behind the Ears is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic’s history, the national body has been defined as “not black,” even as black ancestry has been grudgingly acknowledged. Rejecting simplistic explanations, Ginetta E. B. Candelario suggests that it is not a desire for whiteness that guides Dominican identity discourses and displays. Instead,...