Frank Andre Guridy co-edits the Sports section of Public Books. He 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.
Frank Andre Guridy
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Writing on Public Books
Beholding Black Life: A Conversation with Ross Gay, Frank 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
As large spaces where different sectors of the city converge, stadiums are sites of social and political struggle.
Counterhistories of the Sport Stadium
As large spaces where different sectors of the city converge, stadiums are sites of social and political struggle.
