Kendra Gage

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Assistant Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies

Affiliate professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies

Co-founder, UNLV Race, Indigeneity, and Freedom Lab

Expertise: U.S. sports history, International women's sports, Olympics, Civil rights movement, Black feminist thought, 20th-century America, American West, Title IX

Biography

Kendra Gage is a historian who specializes in topics including international women's and U.S. sports, African American resistance and social movements, 20th-century America, and the U.S. West. She is also well-regarded for her advocacy on teaching educators about implicit bias and anti-racism in the classroom.

After obtaining her Ph.D. in history from UNLV, Gage joined the faculty in 2011 as an assistant professor with the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies. Her manuscript, "Creating the Black California Dream: Virna Canson and the Black Freedom Struggle in the Golden State's Capital, 1940-1988," used the life of Virna Canson as lens for incorporating Sacramento's activities within the larger historical framework of the civil rights movement.

Gage is also one of the founders of the Race, Indigeneity, and Freedom Lab, which is an intensive interdisciplinary research lab for the creative study, thinking, and teaching on race, racism, and liberation in the Mountain West and beyond.

Education

Ph.D., History, UNLV

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Kendra Gage In The News

Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’

Black Perspectives

Our article tracks the brief but rich history of racial segregation in gaming and how this was shaped by the emergence of Jim Crow practices in casino policies and overt discrimination in hiring.

End of competition in skimpy outfits? Sportswomen want to decide about their clothes

Euractiv

Women's sport is often trivialized and described as less interesting. Women in many disciplines are ignored, compared to male athletes. Many people see a woman in a sportsman, not a competitor. But this year's Tokyo Olympics may be a turning point in the history of women's competitive sport. Athletes from various disciplines objected to the dress code requirements.

Tokyo 2020, sexism in sport explained (also) thanks to a pair of briefs

La Ventisettesima Ora

Handball athletes such as German gymnasts have asked for the freedom to use competition clothing in which to feel more comfortable. But something is really changing.

Let the conversations begin and the torch shine brightly on them

Sunday Times Daily

This year’s Olympic Games have brought a number of non-sporting issues to the fore. May it continue.