03936nam a22004933i 4500 EBC4228726 MiAaPQ 20221205174519.0 m o d | cr cnu|||||||| 211129s2016 xx o ||||0 eng d 9780803285408 (electronic bk.) 9780803278813 (MiAaPQ)EBC4228726 (Au-PeEL)EBL4228726 (CaPaEBR)ebr11137130 (CaONFJC)MIL881198 (OCoLC)933443175 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ GV721.4 .P9 S68 2016 796.48 Sotomayor, Antonio. The Sovereign Colony : Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico / Antonio Sotomayor. Lincoln, NE : Nebraska, 2016. ©2016. 1 online resource (325 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- 1. Sport in Imperial Exchanges -- 2. The Rise of a Colonial Olympic Movement, 1930s -- 3. Legitimizing Colonial Olympism in a Colonial Nation, 1940s -- 4. The Commonwealth and the Search for Colonial Sovereignty through Olympism -- 5. A Cold War Playing Field in the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games -- 6. The Eternal Overtime? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico has since remained a colonial territory. Despite this subordinated colonial experience, however, Puerto Ricans managed to secure national Olympic representation in the 1930s and in so doing nurtured powerful ideas of nationalism. By examining how the Olympic movement developed in Puerto Rico, Antonio Sotomayor illuminates the profound role sports play in the political and cultural processes of an identity that evolved within a political tradition of autonomy rather than traditional political independence. Significantly, it was precisely in the Olympic arena that Puerto Ricans found ways to participate and show their national pride, often by using familiar colonial strictures—and the United States’ claim to democratic values—to their advantage. Drawing on extensive archival research, both on the island and in the United States, Sotomayor uncovers a story of a people struggling to escape the colonial periphery through sport and nationhood yet balancing the benefits and restraints of that same colonial status. The Sovereign Colony describes the surprising negotiations that gave rise to Olympic sovereignty in a colonial nation, a unique case in Latin America, and uses Olympic sports as a window to view the broader issues of nation building and identity, hegemony, postcolonialism, international diplomacy, and Latin American–U.S. relations. Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. Olympics 144994 Participation, Puerto Rican. Olympics 144994 Political aspects Puerto Rico Nationalism and sports 299890 Puerto Rico Electronic books. Print version: Sotomayor, Antonio The Sovereign Colony Lincoln, NE : Nebraska,c2016 9780803278813 ProQuest (Firm) https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4228726 Acceso Remoto https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4228726 Acceso en el Campus PUCPR lcc 7 297101 297101 0 0 ddc 0 0 10 10 45 2021-12-07 0 796.48 EBC4228726 2021-12-07 00:00:00 2021-12-07 7 0 0 ddc 0 0 1 1 45 2022-11-07 0 796.48 60000010177266 2022-11-07 00:00:00 Ebook 2022-11-07 7 0 0 lcc 0 0 12 12 45 2022-12-05 0 GV721.4 .P9 S68 2016 50000003295671 2022-12-05 00:00:00 Ebook c. 1 2022-12-05 7