History Forum: The Stadium with Frank A. Guridy
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Saturday, Jan 16, 2027 11am - 12:30pm
Location & Parking
Minnesota History Center
345 W Kellogg Blvd
Details
Join historian Frank Andre Guridy as he recounts the contested history of play, protest, and politics in American stadiums. Today’s stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure, yet since the earliest ballparks, stadiums have also functioned as public squares. From cultivating support for the status quo to protesting societal injustices, Guridy shows how stadiums have always been political venues. Moving between the field, the press box, and the locker room, The Stadium recovers the hidden history of these monuments to sport and their important role in the struggle for power and justice in America.
Biography:
Frank Andre Guridy is the Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. He is an award-winning historian whose recent research has focused on sport history, urban history, and the history of American social movements. In addition to The Stadium, he is author of The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics and Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow.
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