BORDERLINE TREASON: NATIONALISMS AND BASEBALL ON THE TEXAS-MEXICAN BORDER

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Abstract
A 3-year ethnographic-historical study of a Mexican League team that straddles the U.S.-Mexican border is shown to illustrate that there exists not a single form of nationalism but rather a range of nationalisms that characterizes life on the border. This study defines and outlines the presence of three nationalisms: autonationalism, binationalism, and transnationalism. Further, the study argues that border relations and tensions are such that the use of multiple methods is preferable. Exclusive use of one method or another may be useful in detecting one nationalist form but may not pick up the presence of others.