Frank A. Guridy

Frank Andre Guridy is Associate Professor of History and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Besides the Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics, which is featured in his Rorotoko interview, he is the author of Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), which won the Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians and the Wesley-Logan Book Prize, conferred by the American Historical Association. He is also the co-editor, with Gina Pérez and Adrian Burgos, Jr., of Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino/a America (NYU Press, 2010).