UCSB Presentation on Transnational Sports
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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:
Iber Jorge and Samuel Regaladao, 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.
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.
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 BaseballPlayers in the American Press, 1871–1946’. Revista/Review Interamericana VIX, (Summer 1979): 199–208.
Los Angeles
Demas, Lane. "Sport History, Race, and the College Gridiron," Southern California Quarterly, v. 89, n. 2 (2007); 169-193. (PDF Download)
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)
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.
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