Deportistas! Mexican American Women, Sporting Citizenship and Belonging in the Twentieth Century - Paulina A. Rodríguez, Ph.D. Candidate History & ...
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Deportistas! Mexican American
Women, Sporting Citizenship and
Belonging in the Twentieth Century
Paulina A. Rodríguez, Ph.D. Candidate
History & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
My Academic Journey • Sport provided a sense of community from my early years until Junior College. • I realized that the scholarship did not reflect my sporting experience.
What factors have led to the erasure of Mexican
American women’s sporting experiences from
the broader consciousness of sports narratives?
Overarching How is gender negotiated within Mexican
Questions sporting spaces?
How do Mexican women athletes expand our
understandings of transnational networks?Methods • Archival Research • Oral History • Newspapers and Press • Content analysis
Findings
• "Playing Across Borders: Mexicanas
and Athletic Labor, 1920-1940”
• I argue that Mexican women
athletes played a significant role in
defining Mexican identity before and
after the moment of Repatriation
campaigns of the late 1920s and
1930s.Mexican Women’s Physicality • The growth of women’s sport participation in Mexico during these decades influenced the perceptions of women’s physicality. • Physical activity and sport only served the purpose to prepare women for childbirth and the requirements of motherhood • Ideas of women’s physicality circulated among the press influenced ethnic Mexican living in the United States.
Mexican Women’s Sport and
Community in San Antonio
• During the 1930s
Mexican American
women gained the
opportunity to
participate in sport in
San Antonio.
• La Liga Hispano
AmericanaAthletic Labors of Mexicanas
Conclusion • My dissertation shows how Mexican women athletes developed transnational networks, challenged gendered expectations, and obtained a sporting citizenship. This study shows Mexican women athletes as active participants in the process of community building throughout the twentieth century.
Image Credits
• Slide 1
• “El Equipo Femenino de Basketball, “Modern Maids”,” La Prensa (March 5, 1933), 5.
• Slide 2
• Personal photograph
• Slide 4
• “Lideres de la Liga Fememnina Hispano-Americana de Basketball,” La Prensa (February 26,
1933), 5
• “Escaramuza,” (August 17, 2019). Personal Photograph.
• “Nancy with the Laughing Face,” Sports Illustrated (July 10, 1978), cover.
• Slide 5
• "Sports in Corpus Christi," from Olga Gonzales oral history interview with , July 13, 2016,
Corpus Christi, TX, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database,
https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/2636/sports-in-corpus-christi, accessed March 17, 2021.Image Credits Cont’d
• Slide 6
• “El Equipo Femenino de Basketball, “Modern Maids”,” La Prensa (March 5, 1933), 5.
• ““Las Politas,” en Jira por los Estados Unidos,” La Prensa (January 10, 1943), 5.
• Slide 7
• Oscar F. Castillón, “Cual Deben Ser Los Ejercicios Físicos para la Mujer,” La Prensa
(May 7, 1926), 10. Authors translation.
• ”Triunfaron en Vólley Ball,” La Prensa (November 20, 1932), 5.
• Slide 8
• ”Otro Triunfo del Eqiopo Femenino del “Lulac”,” La Prensa (December 30, 1932), 9.
• “Brillante Jugadora,” La Prensa (December 30, 1932), 9.
• Slide 9
• ““Las Politas,” en Jira por los Estados Unidos,” La Prensa (January 10, 1943), 5.Thank you!
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