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Adrian Burgos, Jr. is a historian specializing in U.S. Latino history, sports history, urban history, and African American history. His scholarly work focuses on the migration and immigrant experiences of Latinos in the United States, illustrating the processes of racialization, identity formation, urbanization, and labor. His book, 'Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line' (University of California Press, 2007), explores the incorporation of players from the Spanish-speaking Americas into U.S. professional baseball. He further investigates these themes in his second book, 'Cuban Star: The Negro League Owner Who Changed the Face of Baseball' (Hill & Wang, 2011), which details the life story of Alejandro 'Alex' Pompez, an Afro-Cuban-American who owned a Negro League team and was a major league scout. Burgos has collaborated with the National Baseball Hall of Fame on their Viva Baseball! exhibit and certain documentaries. His courses at the University of Illinois include Caribbean Latino Migrations, Latinos and Cities, Urban History, and Sport and Society, among others.
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