Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean is the most comprehensive
overview to date of the development of modern sports in Latin
America. This new book illustrates how and why sport has become a
central part of the political, economic, and social life of the
region and the repercussions of its role. This highly readable
volume is composed of articles on a wide variety of
sports-basketball, baseball, volleyball, cricket, soccer, and
equestrian events-in countries and regions throughout Latin
America, including Mexico, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil,
Cuba, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. Broad in scope, this
volume explores the definition of modern sport; whether sport is
enslaving, liberating, or neutral; if sport reflects or challenges
dominant culture; the attributes and drawbacks of professional
versus amateur sport; and the difference between sport in
capitalist and socialist nations. Other subjects that are addressed
as they pertain to modern sport include: diffusion and
globalization/internationalization; hegemony, dependency, and
nationalism; politics and the state; culture, ethnicity, and race;
economic class; gender; commercialization, modernization, and
professionalization; health, morality, crime and vice; economics
and labor productivity; and the media.
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