Contributors
- Contributors
Ifi Amadiume is professor of religion and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Religion and the African and African American Studies program at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. An award-winning writer and poet, her book Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (Zed, 1987) won a Choice Outstanding Academic Award and is on the list of “Africa’s 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century.” She is also author of African Matriarchal Foundations: The Igbo Case (Karnak House, 1987), Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion, and Culture (Zed/St. Martin’s, 1997), and Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women Struggle for Culture, Power, and Democracy (Zed/St. Martin’s, 2000). She edited, with Abdullahi An-Na’im, The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing, and Social Justice (Zed/St. Martin’s, 2000).
Carole Boyce Davies is professor of African New World Studies at Florida International University. Her interests include African Diaspora and related studies. Her publications include Black Women, Writing Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Routledge, 1994) and several edited collections: [End Page 339] Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (Africa World Press, 1986); Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature (Africa World Press, 1990); a two-volume collection of critical and creative writing, Moving Beyond Boundaries: International Dimensions of Black Women’s Writing and Black Women’s Diasporas (New York University Press, 1995); The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (Indiana University Press, 1999); Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies (Africa World Press, 2003). She is now completing Left of Karl Marx, a book on the Caribbean feminist activist Claudia Jones, as well as an edition of Jones’s essays, Beyond Containment: Claudia Jones, Activist Politics and Vision.
Lena Delgado de Torres is a Ph.D. student in sociology at SUNY–Binghamton. Her area of study focuses on race and gender in the Americas, especially Latin America. Her dissertation work investigates the construction of racial categories and theories of mestizaje in Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Karen M. Gagne is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at SUNY–Binghamton, where she has been a participant in the Coloniality Research Working Group since 1998. A version of this paper was presented at the annual conference in May 2002. For the past three years, she has been the director of the Marian College/University of Wisconsin–Fond du Lac TRIO Dissemination Partnership Program in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Monica Jardine is an assistant professor of women’s studies at SUNY–Buffalo. She teaches postcolonial theory, cross-cultural studies of women, women in the global system, and historical studies of capitalism. Her research interests include transnational women’s movements, modern theories of transnationalism, and women’s politics in the Caribbean. She is currently preparing a book entitled The Subaltern Caribbean Nation: The Crisis of Post-Colonial Identity in Guyana and the Anglophone Caribbean Region.
Gladys M. Jiménez-Muñoz is an associate professor at SUNY–Binghamton. She was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (1998–99) and a Gaius [End Page 340] Charles Bolin Fellow in History at Williams College, Massachusetts (1992–93). Her latest article is “The Black-Face of Puerto Rican Whites: Race and Representation in Postwar Puerto Rico,” in The Latino Review of Books 8 (2002): 99–117.
Biray Kolluoglu-Kirli is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Bogazici University (Istanbul). She recently completed her dissertation, From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Nation-State: Reconfiguring Spaces and Geo-Bodies, in the Sociology Department at SUNY–Binghamton. She studies memory, nationalism, and space.
Eliza Noh is an assistant professor of Asian American studies at California State University, Fullerton. She recently completed an Institute of American Cultures Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, doing her research on comparative Asian American women’s suicides. She has published essays on imperial transnationalism, sex tourism, and suicide in publications such as the journal positions: east asia cultures critique, and in books such as Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader (New York University Press, 2000), and Making More Waves: New Writing By Asian American Women (Beacon, 1997). Her research interests include race...
