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Contributing Authors
Stephen A. Berrey is Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. He is working on a book that charts transformations in racial practices and ideologies in 1940s and 1950s Mississippi, paying particular attention to racial performances, propaganda, and surveillance.
Valerie Grim is Chair and Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. She holds PhD and MA degrees in history from Iowa State University. Her BA degree is from historically black Tougaloo College. She has published widely and is currently completing a book titled African American Rural Life and Culture in the Mississippi Delta, 1910–1970. She has been engaged in teaching institutes and workshops throughout the United States and South Africa. Her area of expertise concerns African Americans in the United States and blacks in the rural diaspora.
Carmen V. Harris is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina–Upstate. Her research interests the African American experience with the U.S. Cooperative Extension Service. In particular, she studies the development and implementation of race policy and the impact of race policy on the lives of African American extension agents and clients, and the South Carolina Negro Extension Service.
Nghana Lewis is Joint Assistant Professor in English and African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University. She has published on a wide range of subjects, including the history of black education in New Orleans; the gender politics of hip hop music; and black female sexuality and the blues. Currently, she is completing a case study of parents’ understanding of school governance in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Stephen Selka is Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and American Studies at Indiana University. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, identity, and politics in Brazil and in the African Diaspora. He is the author of Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil. [End Page 113]
