Contributors
- Contributors
Moustafa Bayoumi is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is coeditor of The Edward Said Reader (Vintage, 2000) and has published essays in Transition, The Yale Journal of Criticism, Interventions, Arab Studies Quarterly, The London Review of Books, and other places. He served on the National Council of the American Studies Association and is a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report. Currently, he is working on a book about Arab American youth after September 11th.
Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer, and speaker whose 65 years of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of the twentieth century: labor, civil rights, black power, Asian American, women, anti-war, education, and environmental justice. Her autobiography, Living for Change (Minnesota, 1998), is widely used in university classes on social movements. Currently, she writes a column in the weekly Michigan Citizen and is active in the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership and the Beloved Communities Initiative. [End Page 295]
Floyd Cheung is Assistant Professor of English and of American Studies at Smith College and founding chair of the Five College Program in Asian/Pacific/American Studies. With Keith Lawrence, he coedited Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature (Temple, 2005). His essays have been published in journals including a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, The Explicator, and TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. His current research focuses on Asian American travel writing.
Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Weird English (Harvard, 2004), and her work has appeared in the Literary Review, A. Magazine, aonline.com, and The Village Voice. She is currently completing her second book, Weird Language, which examines the evolution of language in marginalized communities.
Fred Ho is a Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, leader of the Afro Asian Music Ensemble and Monkey Orchestra, and coleader with David Bindman of the Brooklyn Sax Quartet. His latest book, coedited with Bill V. Mullen, is Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African- and Asian-Americans (Duke, forthcoming). He has over 15 recordings as a leader and the DVD “The Black Panther Suite.” See http://www.bigredmediainc.com and http://www.voiceofthedragon.com.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford, 2002), and most recently of “What Is the Political? American Culture and the Example of Viet Nam” in Kent Ono’s edited volume Asian American Studies after Critical Mass (Blackwell, 2004). From 2004 to 2005, he was a Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His short fiction has been published in Manoa, Orchid: A Literary Review, and Best New American Voices 2007. [End Page 296]
Tamara K. Nopper is a Ph.D. Candidate and Adjunct Faculty Member in the Sociology Department and the American Studies Program at Temple University. Her research and teaching interests are Asian American communities and politics, Black-Asian relations, immigration, entrepreneur-ship, globalization, and racial science and race theory. Additionally, she serves as an International Trade Research Consultant for the Temple University Small Business Development Center. Further, Tamara is currently finishing interviews with government officials and Korean bank representatives for her dissertation, which explores the various government and banking resources available to and used by Korean immigrants to open, run, and expand their small businesses in New York City and Los Angeles. Tamara has also organized various community forums and events in Philadelphia that are related to her areas of research: “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on Sa I Gu (L.A. Unrest of 1992)”; “The State of Black-Asian Relations: Interrogating Black-Asian Coalition 50 Years after Bandung”; “SNCC and Black Resistance to the Vietnam War with Michael Simmons”; and “Rap, Race, and Black-Asian Relations: A Panel Featuring Jeff Chang, Kenyon Farrow, and Walidah Imarisha.”
John S. W. Park is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the...
