Gregg Bocketti
Biographic Data
| ID | 691578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregg Bocketti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregg |
| FAMILY NAME | Bocketti |
| SIGNATURE | BOCKETTI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Transylvania University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selling Black Brazil
As Anadelia A. Romo states early on in Selling Black Brazil, it is widely accepted that the principal figures of her study—Jorge Amado, Pierre Verger, and Carybé, each the subject of one of the book's chapters—were among the “chief architects of a Bahian regional identity,” crucial in developing the notion of Salvador as a place of folklore, festivity, and, above all, Blackness (p. 19). What Romo shows here is how the Bahian writer, the French ph…
Futbolera
Futbolera is a welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on sports in Latin America, which has only recently begun to afford attention to women's athletics. As Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel say in the book's introduction, despite clear evidence that women in the region played football and other sports for more than a century, popular memory has tended to neglect their activities. Because of the significance that Latin Americans have investe…
Sports Culture and the Varieties of Latin American Identity
This essay reviews the following works:Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America. Edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin, and Juan Poblete. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiii + 307. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781137487186.Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas. Edited by Raanan Rein and David M. K. Sheinin. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. Pp. x + 196. $135.00 cloth. ISBN: …
The Invention of the Beautiful Game
Del football Al Fútbol/futebol
As Diego Armus and Stefan Rinke point out in their introduction to this volume, the long neglect of sports by historians of Latin America has been replaced by a remarkable recent reversal. Del football al fútbol/futebol serves as a useful introduction to the current state of Latin American football scholarship; more importantly, it indicates possibilities for enriching this research.The contributors demonstrate football's utility for understandin…
Italian Immigrants, Brazilian Football, and the Dilemma of National Identity
This article considers the cultural adjustment of immigrants to Brazil through an analysis of the role that association football (soccer) played in identity formation in twentieth-century São Paulo. It focuses on the city's large Italian population, in particular the experiences of a leading club, the Società Sportiva Palestra Itália, and of the first generation of Brazilian footballers who migrated abroad in order to play football professionally…
Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America
Italian Immigrants, Brazilian Football, and the Dilemma of National Identity
This article considers the cultural adjustment of immigrants to Brazil through an analysis of the role that association football (soccer) played in identity formation in twentieth-century São Paulo. It focuses on the city's large Italian population, in particular the experiences of a leading club, the Società Sportiva Palestra Itália, and of the first generation of Brazilian footballers who migrated abroad in order to play football professionally…
Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America
Italian Immigrants, Brazilian Football, and the Dilemma of National Identity
This article considers the cultural adjustment of immigrants to Brazil through an analysis of the role that association football (soccer) played in identity formation in twentieth-century São Paulo. It focuses on the city's large Italian population, in particular the experiences of a leading club, the Società Sportiva Palestra Itália, and of the first generation of Brazilian footballers who migrated abroad in order to play football professionally…
The Invention of the Beautiful Game
Del football Al Fútbol/futebol
As Diego Armus and Stefan Rinke point out in their introduction to this volume, the long neglect of sports by historians of Latin America has been replaced by a remarkable recent reversal. Del football al fútbol/futebol serves as a useful introduction to the current state of Latin American football scholarship; more importantly, it indicates possibilities for enriching this research.The contributors demonstrate football's utility for understandin…
Sports Culture and the Varieties of Latin American Identity
This essay reviews the following works:Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America. Edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin, and Juan Poblete. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xiii + 307. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781137487186.Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas. Edited by Raanan Rein and David M. K. Sheinin. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. Pp. x + 196. $135.00 cloth. ISBN: …
Futbolera
Futbolera is a welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on sports in Latin America, which has only recently begun to afford attention to women's athletics. As Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel say in the book's introduction, despite clear evidence that women in the region played football and other sports for more than a century, popular memory has tended to neglect their activities. Because of the significance that Latin Americans have investe…
Selling Black Brazil
As Anadelia A. Romo states early on in Selling Black Brazil, it is widely accepted that the principal figures of her study—Jorge Amado, Pierre Verger, and Carybé, each the subject of one of the book's chapters—were among the “chief architects of a Bahian regional identity,” crucial in developing the notion of Salvador as a place of folklore, festivity, and, above all, Blackness (p. 19). What Romo shows here is how the Bahian writer, the French ph…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Latin Americans (4 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Football (3 works) · History (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Identity (music) (3 works)