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contributors alma allred is the director of commuter services at the University of Utah and teaches LDS Church history at the University of Utah Institute of Religion. newell g. bringhurst is an instructor of history and political science at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. He is the author of Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism; Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier; Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer’s Life; and Visalia’s Fabulous Fox: A Theater Story. He has edited a fourth book, Reconsidering No Man Knows My History: Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in Retrospect, and has written and contributed numerous essays to various dictionaries, anthologies, and other edited works. ronald g. coleman is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah. He has been an educational consultant and has lectured at colleges and universities on African Americans in the American West. His publications include chapters and articles in The Peoples of Utah, Utah Historical Quarterly, and The World Encyclopedia of Slavery. ken driggs is a sixth-generation member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and has attended the Atlanta Ward of the Atlanta Stake since 1997. He is a criminal defense lawyer, specializing in the death penalty, and a legal historian. Driggs has published extensively on Mormon history and on the death penalty. His first book is Evil among Us: The Texas Mormon Missionary Murders. jessie l. embry is the assistant director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and an instructor of history at Brigham Young University. She is the author of seven books and over seventy articles, including Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons; “In His Own Language”: Mormon Spanishspeaking Congregations in the United States; and Asian American Mormons: Bridging Cultures. 09.167-168_Bringhurst.pmd 6/8/11, 4:23 PM 167 168 / Contributors darius a. gray, a former journalist, was senior staff reporter and chief photographer at the CBS television affiliate in Salt Lake City. He also was an assistant on African affairs to a U.S. senator. He is an independent business consultant and a small business owner. Gray has presided over the Genesis Group, an official arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints organized in 1971 to support church members of African descent. cardell k. jacobson is a professor of sociology at Brigham Young University where he does research and teaches classes on social psychology, race and ethnic relations , social problems, and sociology of religion. His recent publications have focused on denominational, racial, and ethnic differences in fatalism; factors predicting intergroup marriage; and persistent intentions to be childless. He has two books in process, an edited collection on experiences of minority members in the LDS Church and a monograph on intergroup marriage. armand l. mauss is professor emeritus of sociology and religious studies at Washington State University, now residing in Irvine, California. He is a past editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and past president of the Mormon History Association . Mauss is the author of scores of articles and of two books on the Mormons: The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation and All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage. With Lester E. Bush, he is coeditor and coauthor of Neither White nor Black: Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church. darron t. smith is a lecturer at Utah Valley State College and an adjunct faculty member at Brigham Young University. He practices as a physician assistant and is a doctoral candidate at the University of Utah in the Department of Education, Culture , and Society. He has written extensively in the area of race and serves as a column editor for Sunstone magazine. 09.167-168_Bringhurst.pmd 6/8/11, 4:23 PM 168 ...