Antonio Sotomayor is Associate Professor and Librarian of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico, winner of the JosÉ Toribio Medina book award.Cesar R. Torres is Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Sport Studies, and Physical Education at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. He is a former president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, the founding president of the AsociaciÓn Latina de FilosofÍa del Deporte, and a fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology.

• Sport Policy, the YMCA, and the Early History of Olympism in Uruguay - Shunsuke Matsuo  Enthusiastic Yet Awkward Dance Partners: Olympism and Cuban Nationalism - Thomas F. Carter  Olympic Diplomacy and National Redemption in Post-revolutionary Mexico - Keith Brewster and Claire Brewster  The Nationalist Movement and the Struggle for Freedom in Puerto Rico’s Olympic Sport - Antonio Sotomayor  Adhemar Fereira da Silva: Representations of the Brazilian Olympic Hero - Fabio De Faria Peres and Victor Andrade de Melo  Solving “the Problem of Argentine Sport”: The Post-Peronist Olympic Movement in Argentina  -  Cesar R. Torres  Un compromiso de tod@s: Women, Olympism, and the Dominican Third Way - April Yoder  Dis-assembling the Logocentric Subject at the Paralympic Games: The Case of Colombian Powerlifter Fabio Torres - Chloe Rutter-Jensen  In Search of the Olympic Games’ Future Significances: Contributions from Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro - Lamartine Pereira Dacosta  Conclusion - Christopher Gaffney

This original and important collection of essays offers an additional lens to the analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean and sheds new light on the intersection of sports, politics, nation building, and identity formation."- Raanan Rein, Professor of Latin American and Spanish History, Tel Aviv University