Sports and Politics in a Time of Political Polarization
with Frank Guridy
Monday, September 23, 2019 • 6-7PM
Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411
Open only to undergraduates
The Talks with Professors series allows undergraduate students to engage in casual and meaningful conversations with distinguished scholars in a laid-back, informal setting. Students joined Frank Guridy, Associate Professor of History and of African American and African Diaspora Studies, for a conversation on “Sports and Politics in a Time of Political Polarization.”
Talk Description
In recent years sports has re-emerged as an arena of political struggle for progressive movements and for governments who seek to contain them. The mobilization for pay equity by the US Women’s National soccer team, the efforts of the Trump regime to repress black athletic protest, among other struggles, show how sports remain an important site of political contestation. This session places today’s struggles in sport and politics in historical context by revisiting the 1960s and early ’70s, another era when sports emerged as a site of contestation, especially for the Black Freedom and Second-Wave Feminist movements in the United States.
Photo Gallery
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- Professor Guridy talks with students.
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- Students listen to Professor Guridy’s presentation.
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- Professor fields questions from the group.
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