Dr. Allen, “A History of Boxing in Mexico"
Channel: CSUB Stiern Library - Historical Research Center
Date: 2018-11-16

Professor Allen's talk, drawn from his recent book, A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity, and Nationalism (University of New Mexico Press, 2017), will explore how the violent sport of boxing shaped and was shaped by notions of Mexican
national identity during the twentieth century. This talk will reveal how boxing and boxers became sources of national pride and sparked debates on what it meant to be Mexican, masculine, and modern.