Contributors

© Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines 30, no. 2, 2000 Contributors Richard Almonte lives in Toronto, where he works in book publishing. He is also working on his doctorate in Canadian literature at McMaster University. Recent publications include a chapter in Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism , ed. Rinaldo Walcott (Insomniac Press, 2000) as well as his editions of Mary Ann Shadd’s A Plea For Emigration (The Mercury Press, 1998) and Thomas Smallwood ’s A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man) (The Mercury Press, 2000). David Chariandy is completing a PhD in English Literature at York University. His dissertation is on contemporary Black Canadian literature. Afua Cooper’s doctoral dissertation is a study of the life and activism of Henry Bibb in Canada and the United States, from 1842 to 1854. Cooper also has expertise in new world slavery, women’s history, and the history of education in Ontario. Jennifer Harris is a PhD candidate at York University, Toronto and an Associate Editor at Alphabet City: Culture Theory Politics. Recent publications include pieces on Josephine Baker and her “Rainbow Tribe” and African American Women’s Fiction , Mobility, and Domesticity (both in JARM; “Conflict and Community Building in Women’s Studies” (Atlantis); and poet Rita Wong (Fireweed). In spring 2001, her work on Betty Friedan, Cosmo Girl, and the inheritance of whiteness will be published in Turbo Chicks: Talking Young Feminisms. Peter Hudson is currently completing an MA in the Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies at York University in Toronto. He is a freelance writer, past editor of the magazines diaspora and Mix: Independent Art and Culture, and editor of North: New African Canadian Writing, a special issue of West Coast Line. He is beginning doctoral work in American Studies at New York University in fall 2000. David Murray is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Guelph. He has taught at Guelph since 1967 and has also served two terms as Dean of the College of Arts at Guelph. He works in both Latin American and Canadian history and is the author of Odious Commerce: Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Slave Trade to Cuba. He has published recent articles on the slave trade and slavery in Cuba as Canadian Review of American Studies 30 (2000) 244 well as articles on Canadian legal history. His paper on Solomon Moseby is part of a longer study of the operation of the criminal justice system in colonial Niagara. Christian Olbey is currently completing his dissertation on constructions of Canada in the antebellum slave narratives in the department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include “Legacy: A Student’s Rememory of Dr. Kathleen Martindale” in Resources For Feminist Research and “Written in the Scars: History, Genre, and Materiality” in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here” (coauthored with Dr. Pamela McCallum) in Essays in Canadian Writing. Jane Rhodes is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and an Affiliated Associate Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Rhodes’ research focuses on the relationship between race and media, the ethnic press, and black social movements across the African Diaspora. In particular, she is interested in the ways marginalized and aggrieved groups use the press for public expression and community mobilization. She is equally interested in how the mass media reproduces and constructs national ideologies about race and gender. She is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Indiana, 1998). This book studies the writing, political ideology , and activism of Shadd Cary in Canada and the US. Rhodes’s current research shifts her interest in Black Nationalism, mass culture, and the black press to the twentieth century in a study of the Black Panther Party. Rhodes spent spring 2000 in London investigating the British and Canadian reception to the Black Panthers during the 1960s. Barrington Walker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and a Junior Fellow in the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto. He is currently finishing a thesis on criminal trials of blacks before Ontario’s courts in the nineteenth and twentieth...