Authors’ Series

Frank Guridy is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His recent research explores sports history: a history of race and masculinity in Black Diasporic sporting cultures; and a book-length study of the role of stadiums in U.S. cities also during the 20th century. His talk, Nation Time at the Coliseum,” will highlight the ways African Americans occupied and transformed urban space in 1970s Los Angeles by focusing on the relationship between African Americans and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the iconic stadium which had been Southern California’s main athletic arena since it opened in 1923.Haines Hall Rom 135″