In Texas, chronicling a soccer team, and a sister city, skilled at border crossing
October 31, 2008
MP3 Audio: Interview with Oscar Casares (24.10mb) Download
By: John Turnbull visit website
Genre: Interview
Tags: brownsville, football, high schools, hispanic, latinos, soccer, texas
Texas writer Oscar Casares on 10 May 07 discusses his Nov 06 profile of the 2006 Texas state soccer champion Porter High School of Brownsville. We wonder why the Dallas Cowboys, and not soccer, feature in his short stories and hear how a border culture, up to 98 percent Latino in places, may have helped foster Porter players' resolve in facing up to racist taunts.
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