Introduction, 1
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin, and Juan Poblete
Part I Sports and the Construction of Nationalism
1 Football and Patria, Ten Years Later: SportsNationalism as a Commodity, 29
Pablo Alabarces
2 The Antinational Game? An Exploration of Women’sSoccer in Latin America, 45
Joshua Nadel
3 (F)Utopias: The Nationalist Uses of Soccer in Costa Rica, 67
Sergio Villena Fiengo
4 Race, Sports, and Regionalism in the Construction of Colombian Nationalism, 85
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste
Part II Sports as Intranational Mediation
5 The Players of the Brazilian Football Team as a Model ofCulture: Life Stories Mediated by Television News, 109
Vander Casaqui
6 Nationalism and Public Policies of Sports in Brazil, 125
Renata Maria Toledo and Maria Tarcisa Silva Bega
7 The Nation in the Strike Zone and Reality at Bat:Bodies, Voices, and Spaces of Cuban Baseballin Sport Documentaries, 141
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Part III Sports and Alterity
8 “Can I please have a ramp with that Gold Medal?”: Colombian Paralympics and the ProstheticLim(b)inality of Nation, 163
Chloe Rutter-Jensen
9 Women Boxers and Nationalism in Mexico 181
Hortensia Moreno
10 “You Have the Right to Surf!”: Riding Waves of Modernity, Decolonization, and NationalIdentity in Peru, 201
Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee
Part IV Sports as Transnational Mediation
11 Guillermo Vilas, “Tennis’s Sexiest Man”: The Argentine Dictatorship in the US Tennis Press, 1974–1982, 227
Robert McKee Irwin
12 The Meanings of Manu: Style, Race, and Globalizationin the Culture of Basketball, 249
Yago Colás
13 Latino Soccer, Nationalism, and Border Zones inthe United States, 269
Juan Poblete
Notes on Contributors, 289
Index, 291