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The article discusses the history of professional and semi-professional baseball in Lower Rio Grande Valley region of Texas from the 1920s to the 1970s. Teams considered include the Brownsville Tigers, San Benito Nine, and the Mission 30-30s. Topics explored include the social and community building aspects of baseball, racial interactions through baseball, and Mexican and Mexican-American baseball players.

Abstract: In this article, I argue that the enacted curriculum in the United States of America is driven by a politics of domestication—a negative process of acculturation by which individuals are required to conform uncritically to established norms in a community of practice, and by which they are prevented from using their own craft and/or professional knowledge to assist the community to grow. As a result, the science curriculum, instead of being a site for critical engagement, becomes more like a pasture—a site for the uncritical grazing of the ‘official knowledge’. Suggestions are provided to address this pervasive issue and to explore more effective ways to develop curriculum that enables teachers to teach for diversity and understanding. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Explores the contradictions in the National Science Education Standards on ethnicity in the United States. Exclusion of ethnic groups in science and technology related courses; Use of student-centered and collaborative methods of teaching; Problems in reporting science academic achievements of Asian and Latino students; Advantages of the application of the standards.