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Frank Andre Guridy

Frank Andre Guridy teaches history and African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia University. His most recent book, The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics, shows how Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes from marginalized backgrounds transformed American sporting culture during the high point of the Black freedom and second-wave feminist movements. icon

Beholding Black Life: A Conversation with Ross Gay, Frank Guridy, & Deborah Paredez

By Frank Andre Guridy & Deborah Paredez

“We have to witness everything… You don't do it by yourself. That mode of looking is not like any individual feat; it is a feat of joining.”

Counterhistories of the Sport Stadium

By Frank Andre Guridy

As large spaces where different sectors of the city converge, stadiums are sites of social and political struggle.

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