Bøker av Jorge Iber

Adrian Gabriel ""Gabe"" Rivera was one of the greatest players in the history of Texas Tech football. Sports historian Jorge Iber's newest book chronicles this Mexican American athlete's rise to prominence and later life.

Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Torrez's life added up to much more than his worst moment on the mound. This book covers Torrez's life and career as the winningest Mexican American pitcher in Major League history.

Here, the author looks at the history and culture of Hispanics in Utah and examines the impact of their widespread conversion from Catholicism to Mormonism. His study examines Hispanic assimilation and acculturation in a setting vastly different from other states.

This work provides a revealing look at the history of Hispanic peoples in the American West (or, from the Mexican perspective, El Norte) from the period of Spanish colonization through the present day.