Season 2 · Episode 57

S2 Ep. 57 Special Guest Emalee Nelson - A League of Their Own

Cuban women who played in the All-American Girls Baseball League

Hoops Off · Luminary | Liz Lapp and Karen Uyenco

April 16, 20201h 48m

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In this episode we are joined by Emalee Nelson, PhD student at the University of Hawaii, to discuss her dissertation on the Cuban Women who played baseball in the All-American Girls Baseball League - which was fictionalized in the popular 1992 sports comedy movie, A League of Their Own. This conversation leads to socio-economics, gender equality, racism and the American dream for Women in Sports. We also dive into the #WeKeepPlaying panel, WNBA 2020 Draft, NBA HORSE and much more.

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Extra Credit reading recommendations:
Shultz, Jaime. Qualifying Times: Points of Change in U.S. Women's Sport. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Cahn, Susan. Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women Sport. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Burgos, Adrian. Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Ramirez, Catherine. The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism and the Cultural Politics of Memory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.

Iber, Jorge, Regalado, Samuel O., Alamillo, José M., and Arnoldo De León. Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identify, and Acceptance. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2011.

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