Description: ""Examines the history of Latino/a athletes in American sports, including baseball, boxing, football, basketball, and horse racing. Also evaluates the role of sports in Spanish-speaking culture in the US."
Brief description: Jorge Iber is a professor of history and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University. Over the past 10 years, he has written and published widely on the topic of the participation of Latinos/as in the history of U.S. sports.