FÚTBOL IN THE HEARTLAND: MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS, TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND RECREATIONAL SPORT IN OKLAHOMA CITY

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dc.contributor.advisorKlein, Misha
dc.contributor.authorKleszynski, Keith
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMinks, Amanda
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRankin-Hill, Lesley
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSpicer, Paul
dc.contributor.committeeMemberEvans, Sterling
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-06T14:17:05Z
dc.date.available2015-05-06T14:17:05Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-05
dc.date.manuscript2015-05-05
dc.description.abstractWhen immigrants traverse international borders they bring with them many cultural practices and traditions from their lives back home. This research focuses on how a modern sport, fútbol (soccer), operates as a cultural practice that facilitates transnational cultural identities for Mexican immigrants in Oklahoma City. For Mexican immigrants, playing and/or watching recreational fútbol is paramount in the maintenance and performance of their cultural identities in the United States. For these immigrants recreational fútbol is much more than a game; it is a cultural tradition that facilitates connections to hometowns, cities, regions, and nations of origin. Recreational fútbol is also vitally important for men and masculinity in Mexican immigrant communities as many of these men consider fútbol a man’s game and the leagues masculine social spaces. The cultural practices that are a part of the social world of La Liga indicate that being transnational is a performance that relies heavily on a symbolic embodiment of identity, on recreating and maintaining cultural practices and traditions from one’s homeland, and that transnational cultural practices and traditions contribute to those already existing in immigrant receiving destinations.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/14570
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.subjectFútbolen_US
dc.subjectImmigrationen_US
dc.subjectTransnationalismen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectMexicoen_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.titleFÚTBOL IN THE HEARTLAND: MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS, TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND RECREATIONAL SPORT IN OKLAHOMA CITYen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of Anthropologyen_US
shareok.nativefileaccessrestricteden_US
shareok.orcid0000-0003-0424-5251en_US

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