University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Assistant Professor Antonio Sotomayor recently spoke with NPR’s Codeswitch about the historic gold medal Olympic win for Puerto Rican tennis player Monica Puig.
Sotomayor discusses how “the very, very complicated relationship between the U.S. mainland and the island territory with its long colonial history has always been the not-quite-subtext of Puerto Rico’s international athletic endeavors.”
You can read the interview here.
Sotomayor’s latest book is The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico.
Images from NPR Codeswitch website and University of Nebraska Press website.
