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Campus, Brand, and Circus: A Social History of College Sports

By: Juan Pescador

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Campus, Brand, and Circus: A Social History of College Sports

By: Juan Pescador

Campus, Brand, and Circus: A Social History of College Sports provides students with a historical perspective on relevant issues regarding college athletics. The text chronicles the evolution of collegiate sport while exploring topics including youth rituals, the legal status of college athletes, masculine identities, gender markers, leisure cultures, racial hierarchies, and more. Over the course of eight chapters, the text provides students with contemporary context for the study of college sports history, an overview of the inception of recreational and athletics activities by student associations in the 1800s, and insight on the rise of American football. The book addresses women in college sports, speaks to the African-American athlete experience, and examines the relationship between college sports and mass media. The final chapter analyzes the consolidation of Big Time collegiate sports, namely football and basketball, as national brands in sports entertainment and its continued effects on American culture. Campus, Brand, and Circus provides unique insight into the world of college sports and explores vital trends in U.S. sports entertainment studies. It is well suited to courses in American sports history, college sports history, and the sociology of sports. Juan Javier Pescador is a professor of history at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses in American sports history, college sports history, and American film history. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1998. Dr. Pescador has published numerous research and educational books with university presses in the United States, Mexico, Spain, and Canada. He pioneered the field of sports history and college sports history at Michigan State and in the Big Ten. As a filmmaker, Dr. Pescador has directed and produced five documentary films on relevant issues like homophobia, transgender, youth incarceration and public arts.

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151651193X

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Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

By: Juan Javier Pescador

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Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

By: Juan Javier Pescador

In this thoroughly researched work, Juan Javier Pescador traces the history of popular devotion to the Santo Niño de Atocha, one of the the most prominent religious figures for households between Zacatecas, Mexico, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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University of New Mexico Press

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082634710X

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9780826347107

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico

Puebla de los Ángeles, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

By: Juan Luis Burke

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Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico

Puebla de los Ángeles, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

By: Juan Luis Burke

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chronicles the creation and development of Puebla de los Ángeles, a city located in central-south Mexico, during its viceregal period. Founded in 1531, the city was established as a Spanish settlement surrounded by important Indigenous towns. This situation prompted a colonial city that developed along Spanish colonial guidelines but became influenced by the native communities that settled in it, creating one of the most architecturally rich cities in colonial Spanish America, from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods. This book covers the city's historical background, investigating its civic and religious institutions as represented in selected architectural landmarks. Throughout the narrative, Burke weaves together sociological, anthropological, and historical analysis to discuss the city’s architectural and urban development. Written for academics, students, and researchers interested in architectural history, Latin American studies, and the Spanish American viceregal period, it will make an important contribution to the field.

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1000383547

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Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

By: Juan Javier Pescador

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Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

By: Juan Javier Pescador

Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha journeys through the genesis, development, and various metamorphoses in the veneration of the Holy Child of Atocha, from its origins in Zacatecas in the late colonial period through its different transformations over the centuries, across lands and borders, and to the ultimate rising as a defining religious devotion for the Mexican/Chicano experience in the United States. It is a vivid account of the historical origins of the Santo Niño de Atocha and His transformations "Everywhere He ever walked," first in the nineteenth century, along the Camino de Tierra Adentro between Zacatecas and New Mexico, to His consolidation as a saint for the Borderlands, and finally, to His contemporary metamorphosis as a border-crossing religious symbol for the immigrant experience and the Mexican/Chicano communities in the United States. Using a wide variety of visual and written materials from archives in Spain, Mexico, and the United States, along with oral history interviews, participant observation, photography, popular art, thanksgiving paintings, and private letters addressed to the Holy Child, Juan Javier Pescador presents the fascinating and intimate history of this religious symbol native to the Borderlands, while dispelling some myths and inaccurate references. Including narrative vignettes with his own personal experiences and fragments of his family's interactions with the Holy Child of Atocha, Pescador presents the book "as a thanksgiving testimony of the prominent position the Santo Niño de Atocha has enjoyed in the altarcitos of my family and the dear place He has carved in the hearts of my ancestors." Visit the author's website at www.pescadorarte.com to learn more and to see images of the Santo Niño de Atocha included in the book.

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0826347118

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Book's by Juan Javier Pescador

Campus, Brand, and Circus: A Social History of College Sports

Campus, Brand, and Circus: A Social History of College Sports

Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico

Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha

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