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Josh Gibson Foundation Presents, Negro Leagues Matter: A Webinar Series Part 3

Speaker: Lisa Alexander

Title: A Sneak Preview of the 2023 Malloy Conference

Bio: Lisa Doris Alexander is a professor in the department of African American Studies at Wayne
State University in Detroit. She is the author of three books including When Baseball Isn’t White
Straight and Male: The Media and Difference in the National Pastime, Expanding the Black
Film Canon: Race and Genre Across Six Decades and an entry in Wayne State University Press
TV Milestone series on the show Homicide: Life on the Street. She earned a B.A. in Political
Science from Grinnell College, an M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in
American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. Her work has appeared in Black
Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, The Journal
of American History, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and The American Historian.
Dr. Alexander grew up in Chicago and despite working in Detroit for almost twenty years, is still
a Chicago sports fan (White Sox, not Cubs).

Apr 15, 2023 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)