Assigned Books
- Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (NY: Verso, 1989)
- Eduardo Galeano, Soccer in Sun and Shadow (NY: Nationbooks, 2010)
- Joshua Nadel, !Futbol! Why Soccer Matters in Latin America, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014)
- Laurent DuBois, Soccer Empire: the World Cup and the Future of France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010)
- Warren St. John, Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Towns Quest to Make a Difference, (NY: Spiegel and Grau, 2006)
Assigned Essays, Journalism and Criticism
- Luis Alvarez, El tri vs. The Stars and Stripes: on the History of the U.S.-Mexico Soccer Rivalry, Journal of the West, 10/01/2015
- Andrew Busch, " Southern Spaces, 08/09/2015
- John Cassidy, , The New Yorker, May 28, 2015
- Oscar Cazares, , Texas Monthly, November 2006
- Elise Edwards, The promises and possibilities of the pitch: 1990s Ladies League Soccer Players as Fin-de-Siecle Modern Girls, Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Contemporary Japan, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014)
- Brenda Elsey, , Football Scholars Forum
- Alma Guillermoprieto, Bogota 1991, The Heart that Bleeds: Latin America Now (NY: Random House,1995)
- Adivar Haram, Who owns the field, The Life of the Law
- Loretta Lynch, , Justice.Gov
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips, , New Republic, 06/14/2014
- Rowan Ricardo Phillip, , The New Republic, July 8, 2014
- Barney Ronay, , The Guardian, 06/08/2016
- Peter Staunton, , Goal.Com
- Sergio Varela Hernandez, Me-Xi-Co, Me-Xi-Co, ra ra ra: Invented Traditions and the Performance of Mexican Fans at South Africas World Cup, in Peter Alegi, ed., Africas World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, patriotism, Spectatorship and Space, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013)
- Raul Vilchis, , New York Times, 06/06/2015
- David Walstein, , New York Times, Jun 7, 2015
- Stephen Wood, , Jacobin, 10/2017
Assigned Films, Series and Documentaries
- Gwendolyn Oxenham, Pelada (Chapel Hill: Francis Gasparini & Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, 2010)
- Parminder Nagra, Bend it like Beckham (London: Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2004)
- Gary Alazraki, Club de Cuervos (Mexico City: Netflix, 2014)
- Carlos Cuaron, Rudo y Cursi (Mexico City: Focus Features International, 2008)
- David Dietz, les Bleus: Un autre historie de france, (2016)
- Andrew Zimbalist, The Two Escobars: ESPN 30 for 30, (NY: ESPN, 2010)
Research Bibliography
- Adrian Burgos jr., Playing Americas Game: Latinos, Baseball and the Color Line (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)
- Adrian Burgos jr., Cuban Star: How One Negro League Club Owner Changed baseball (NY: Hill and Wang, 2012)
- Andrew Busch, City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth Century Austin (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
- Laurent Dubois, The Language of the Game, (NY: Basic Books, 2018)
- Laurent DuBois, Soccer Empire: the World Cup and the Future of France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010)
- Fredrik Ekelund and Karl Ove Knausgaard, Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game, (NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2016)
- Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World: an Unlikely Theory of Globalization (NY: Harper Perennial, 2010)
- Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, (NY: Basic Books, 2013)
- Ignacio Garcia, When Mexicans Could Play Ball: Basketball, Race and Identity in San Antonio, 1928-1945 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014)
- Melita Garza, They Came to Toil: Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018)
- David Goldblatt, The Ball is Round: a Global History of Soccer (NY: Riverhead Books, 2000)
- David Goldblatt, Futebol Nation: the Story of Brazil through Soccer (NY: Nation Books, 2014)
- David Goldblatt, The Game of Our Lives: The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain (NY: Basic Books, 2014)
- Alexander Hemon, If god existed, he would be a solid midfielder, Granta 108 (2009), 10-25.
- Michael Hurd, Thursday Night Lights: the Story of Black High School Football (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018)
- C.L.R. James, Beyond a Boundary (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993)
- Julia Kirk Blackwelder, Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-1939 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998)
- Max Krochmal, Blue Texas: the Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
- David Montejano, Quixotes Soldiers: a Local History of the Chicano Movement (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010)
- Gwendolyn Oxenham, Finding the Game: Three Years, Twenty Five Countries, and the Search for Pickup Soccer (Boston: St. Martins Press, 2012)
- Gwendolyn Oxenham, Under the Lights and in the dark: Untold Stories of Womens Soccer (London: Icon Books, 2017)
- Amilcar Shabazz, Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Equity and Access to Higher Education in Texas (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
- Tyina Steptoe, Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015)
- Stefan Szymanski and Simon Kuper, Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Spain, Germany, and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S, Japan, Australia Even Iraq Are Destined to Become the Kings of the Worlds Most Popular Sport (NY: Nationbooks, 2014)
- Eliot Treeter, Shadows of a Sunbelt Economy: the Environment, Racism and the Knowledge Economy in Austin (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016)
- Juan Villoro, God is Round: tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs, and Scandals of the Worlds Favorite Game (NY: Nation Books, 2016)
- Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: the History of Soccer Tactics (NY: Nation Books, 2013)
- David Winner, Brilliant Orange: the Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football (NY: The Overlook Press, 2008)