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Adrian Burgos Jr., Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line U.C. Press, 2007

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Lydia by Octavio Solis at Marin Theatre Company

Jackie Robinson is a towering figure, but Black Latinos like Minnie Minoso were integration pioneers as well. Adrian Burgos Jr. puts baseball's racial past in a transnational context and describes how Jim Crow and integration affected Black Latinos. Also, Octavio Solis has written an explosive play about a Mexican American family on the border.

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