My dissertation, "Transnational Sportsways: African American Baseball Players in the Americas, 1910-1950," shows how black baseball became a cultural conduit for exploring the politics of race and citizenship in the African Diaspora during the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1950, hundreds of African American ballplayers traveled to nations like Cuba and Mexico in search of better pay and improved working conditions. Their journeys revealed to journalists in the U.S. black press, differences in accommodations, celebrity statuses, along with the presence of interracial baseball abroad. Through columns, op-eds, photographs, and box scores, athletes and sportswriters worked in tandem, transforming the sports pages into a dynamic site of citizenship politics and more importantly, as a crucial forum for discussing race and discrimination in an international context.