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...Adrian Burgos, Jr. The project of recovering the history of the Negro Leagues, and in so doing establishing a more complete account of U.S. professional baseball's segregated past, is fertile ground for interrogating the possibilities and limitations of diasporic frameworks. This article examines...

... Brown 11 Left Out: Afro-Latinos, Black Baseball, and the Revision of Baseball’s Racial History  •  Adrian Burgos Jr. 37 Beyond Heritage Tourism: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions  •  Jemima Pierre 59 Family Matters: Diaspora, Difference, and the Visual Archive...

... the members of Grupo Unión discuss hiring baseball players to play in the 134 Decena/Gray stadium they have built — they are reproducing themselves with paid Starting with workers. We would like to compare this to your short, Cybraceros, about workers on the Mexican side...

..., Black Baseball, and the Revision of Baseball’s Racial History,” the encounters between differing valences of blackness in baseball can open up new avenues of inquiry in African American (and by extension American) historiography. His works reinserts Afro-Latinos and Latin America into Negro...

... Streets, Martial Races , 2–3 , citing a US News and World Report story in 1997 about what would make for good peacekeepers. 19 See Carlin, “Monologue on Football and Baseball.” militarization race religion secularization martial races demilitarization For Saba Recent...

..., such “inclusion must be based on reliable sources.” 48 These requirements make it possible to categorize Jackie Robinson as an African American baseball player, because his ethnicity is relevant, defining, and verifiable in reliable sources, and also make it nearly impossible to categorize Branch Rickey...

...- rious rise of arbitrary and brutal police violence. It was soon clear that the arbitrary quality of the baseball bat had simply been transferred to the nightstick and the Glock. It became harder and harder for any of the coalitions’ partners to participate as victims in this force of law, with each...

..., accumulating the dead like ghoulish baseball cards. Except that there is no trading. No forgetting. Just a stack of dead bodies that grows every time we blink. And I'm speaking only of the dead—not the harassed, the beaten, the humiliated, the stopped-and-frisked, the raped. The list includes the victims...

... PSG à l’école” (No law prohibits you from wearing a PSG jersey to school). In fact, sports jackets and jerseys emblazoned with team logos had become the fashion among Parisian children, and while most of these borrowed from American baseball, football, or basketball...

...- ketball, football, and baseball players’ unions, the actors’ unions include members whose economic situations do not evoke much public sympathy.27 Yet, according to the unchallenged statistics of the unions, the overwhelm- ing majority...

... a kind of refuge from it. Many of the seemingly endless hours of empty time that soldiers faced—after a morning of appointments and in the absence of a special support-the-troops event like a trip to a baseball game or a steak dinner out—were spent in solitary distraction, watching TV or movies...

... Crazy,” Boston Magazine (May 2001), bostonmagazine.com/articles/boy_crazy/. 41. On the Red Sox theme, see Frank Ardolino, “From the Curse to Its 142 Harkins ∙ Virtual Predators Reverse: Red Sox Nation in Films, 1992 – 2000,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball His...

..., whiteness, and Americanness (e.g., baseball players, models, military men, and nuclear families). Cigarettes reproduced desires for a fantasy of self-control, thereby serving as a coping mechanism for the anxiety and stress of increasingly sedentary work in modern workplaces. 48 Because the experiences...

... of storytell- ing and political commentary. Sporting a hoodie and a baseball cap, El Général fills the recording booth (a dimly lit basement room whose walls are decorated with graffiti and a prophetic number: 14) with earnest yet apprehensive intensity. Collaborative Revolutionism The Tunisian...

... of subjects. The ads tell you that you can buy each commodity on credit, but the feeling that accompanies the purchases is priceless. One ad shows a family at a baseball game, where tickets, food, and souvenirs are all given a price tag. The ad closes, “Time with your family: priceless.” The assumption...