Olimpismo : the Olympic movement in the making of Latin America and the Caribbean /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Sotomayor, Antonio (Editor), Torres, César R. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2020.
Series:	Sports, culture, and society
Subjects:	Olympics > Participation, Latin American. Olympics > Social aspects > Latin America. Olympics > Social aspects > Caribbean Area. Olympics > History. Nationalism and sports > Latin America. Nationalism and sports > Caribbean Area. Sports > Latin America > History. Sports > Caribbean Area > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Sports policy, the YMCA, and the early history of Olympism in Uruguay / by Shunsuke Matsuo
Enthusiastic yet awkward dance partners : Olympism and Cuban nationalism / by Thomas F. Carter
Olympic diplomacy and national redemption in post-revolutionary Mexico / by Keith Brewster and Claire Brewster
The nationalist movement and the struggle for freedom in Puerto Rico's Olympic sport / by Antonio Sotomayor
Adhemar Fereira da Silva : representations of the Brazilian Olympic hero / by Fabio de Faria Peres and Victor Andrade de Melo
Solving "the problem of Argentine sport" : the post-Peronist Olympic movement in Argentina / by Cesar R. Torres
Un compromiso de tod@s : women, Olympism, and the Dominican third way / by April Yoder
Dis-assembling the logocentric subject at the Paralympic Games : the case of Colombian powerlifter Fabio Torres / by Chloe Rutter-Jensen
In search of the Olympic Games' future significances : contributions from Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro / by Lamartine Pereira DaCosta.