Contributors
- Contributors
T.J. Anderson, III is studying for the PhD degree in English at the State University of New York (Binghamton). He is author of At Last Round Up, a collection of poems.
Devon W. Carbado is an acting professor of law at the University of California (Los Angeles), where he teaches courses in constitutional criminal procedure, criminal adjudication, and critical race theory. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA and received the JD from Harvard University’s Law School. He has published in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and has work forthcoming in Harvard’s Women’s Law Journal and Inside Race (NYU Press).
Michael Collins edits the newsletter of Global Textile Network and teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Oxford Companion to African American Literature, The New Leader, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Salamander, The World & I, and elsewhere.
Kwame Dawes, a widely published poet and critic, is author of six collections of poems, the most recent being Shook Foil, Requiem, and Jack Jacobus. His critical essays have appeared in Ariel, World Literature Today, Critical Quarterly, DoubleTake, London Review, and The Journal of West Indian Literature. He is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
Phillip Brian Harper is an associate professor of English at New York University. He is author of Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture and Are We Not Men?: Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity.
E. Patrick Johnson, who graduated from the University of North Carolina, recently received the PhD in speech communication (performance studies) at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is an assistant professor of English at Amherst College.
Robin D.G. Kelley is a professor of history and Africana studies at New York University. His first book, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, won several awards, including the Rudwick Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Simkins Prize from the Southern Historical Association. He is also author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class; co-editor, with Sidney J. Lemelle, of Imagining Home: Class, Culture, and Nationalism in the African Diaspora; general editor, with Earl Lewis, of the eleven-volume Young Oxford History of African Americans, and author of Volume 10, entitled Fire: African Americans Since 1970.
Luna Ortiz is a photographer, artist, filmmaker, model, activist, and actor living in New York City. His work has been exhibited at the Boston Center of the Arts, Seagram Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, and New Museum of Contemporary Art. One of his photographs is the cover art for Shade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent (New York: Avon Books, 1996).
Dwight A. McBride is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He received the AB degree in English and African American Studies at Princeton University and the MA and PhD degrees in English at the University of California (Los Angeles). His Impossible Witnesses: Restrictive and Resistive Discourses on Slavery and Abolitionism is forthcoming from New York University Press. He has also published essays in the areas of race theory and black cultural studies. He is an advisory and contributing editor to Callaloo.
David Moore has studied English and film at Iowa State University, Howard University, and L’Université de Montpelier (France). He is a film producer and a frequent contributor of photographs to Vibe Magazine. He lives in New York City.
Sadiq lives in New York.
Reginald Shepherd teaches at Northern Illinois University. His first book of poems, Some Are Drowning, won the 1993 Associated Writing Programs’ Award in Poetry. A 1995 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he is also author of Angel, Interrupted, a second volume of poems.
Touré has published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vibe, and Playboy. He is currently studying in the graduate Creative Writing Program at Columbia University.
