Journal Article on the Mexican Athletic Association of Southern California and Transnational Sports [PDF Copy]
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Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez: Mexican American Tennis Star
Richard ‘Pancho’ Gonzalez, Race and
the Print Media in Postwar Tennis America
By
Jose´ M. Alamillo
ABSTRACT:
Latinos and Latinas have a long history in the sport of tennis. This article examines the life of Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, a Mexican-American tennis player who overcame racial and class barriers to reach the top of professional tennis in the 1950s. It focuses on the changing media coverage of Gonzalez in English and Spanish language newspapers,mainstream magazines and sports journals. The article shows how the English print media constructed Gonzalez as the ‘bad boy’ of tennis during the Second World War but then a decade later celebrated his athletic achievements as symbol of American democracy. The Spanish-language media repeatedly praised Gonzalez as a role model for Mexican American youth. Ultimately, the racial ideologies communicated through media sources played an important role in the representation of Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez and the visible contributions of Latino athletes in US Sports. [Dowload PDF Article]
From "dark" Pancho to "blonde" Pancho
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Latino/as in U.S. Sports
Selected Bibliography
(in progress)
General Surveys:
Jorge Iber, Samuel Regalado, Jose Alamillo and Arnoldo de Leon, Latinos in U.S. Sports (Human Kinetics, forthcoming)
Iber Jorge and Samuel Regalado, eds. Mexican Americans and Sports: A Reader on Athletics and Barrio Life. College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2007.
Tennis
Alamillo, Jose. "Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, Race and the Print Media in Postwar Tennis America" International Journal of the History of Sport, V. 26, N. 7 (June 2009): 947-965. (PDF Download)
Gonzales, Pancho and Cy Rice. Man with a Racket: The Autobiography of Pancho Gonzales. New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1959.
Seebohm, Caroline, Little Pancho: The Life of Tennis Legend Pancho Segura (University of Nebraska Press, 2009)
Soccer
Miller, Rory and Liz Crolley, eds. Football in the Americas: Futbol, Futebol, Soccer (Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2007)
Magazine, Roger, Golden and Blue Like My Heart: Masculinity, Youth, and Power Among Soccer Fans in Mexico City (University of Arizona Press, 2007)
Fonseca, Horacio, " Pro Soccer's Anti-Latino Game Plan" Nuestro (May 1978)
Baseball
Burgos, Adrian Jr. Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Regalado, Samuel. Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Klein, Alan, Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos (Princeton University Press, 1997).
Torres, Noe, Baseball's First Mexican-American Star: The Amazing Story of Leo Najo (Llumina Press, 2005).
Alamillo, Jose. "Peloteros in Paradise: Mexican American Baseball and Oppositional Politics in Southern California, 1930-1950" Western Historical Quarterly, v. 34, n. 2 (Summer 2003)
Frio, Donald and Marc Onigman. ‘Good Field, No Hit: The Image of the Latin American Baseball Players in the American Press, 1871–1946’. Revista/Review Interamericana VIX, (Summer 1979): 199–208.
Football
Iber, Jorge "On Field Foes and Racial Misconceptions: the 1961 Donna Redskins and Their Drive to the Texas State Football Championship," International Journal for the History of Sport, v. 21, n.2 (March 2004).
Demas, Lane. "Sport History, Race, and the College Gridiron," Southern California Quarterly, v. 89, n. 2 (2007); 169-193. (PDF Download)
Longoria, Mario, Athletes Remembered: Mexicanoa/Latino Professional Football Players, 1929-1970 (Bilingual Press, 1997)
California
Kurutz, Gary."Popular Culture on the Golden Shore," California History, v79, n. 2 (2000): 280-315. (PDF Download)
Miller, Robert. "Entertainment in Hispanic California, 1769-1848, Southern California History, v. 86, n. 2 (2004): 101-112. (PDF Download)
Joel Franks, Whose Baseball? The National Pastime and Cultural Diversity in California, 1859-1941 (Scarecrow Press, 2001)
Mexico
Brewster, Keith. ‘Patriotic Pastimes: The Role of Sport in Post-Revolutionary Mexico’. International Journal of the History of Sport 22, no. 2, (2005): 139–57.
Beezley, William, "Bicycles, Modernization, and Mexico" in Joseph Arbena, ed. Sport and Society in Latin America: Diffusion, Dependency and the Rise of Mass Culture (Greenwood Press, 1988)
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