The Obama Phenomenon: Toward a Multiracial Democracy

Contributors

Contributors JOSEPHiNE A. v. ALLEN is professor at the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton University and professor emerita at Cornell University’s Department of Policy Analysis and Management. her most recent publication is Letters to President Obama: Americans Share Their Hopes and Dreams with the First African American President (new york: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009). RObERT L. ALLEN is adjunct professor of African American Studies and ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Allen is also senior editor of The Black Scholar journal. his books include Black Awakening in Capitalist America. he is currently working on a study of C. L. Dellums, a founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union. HERb bOyD is an author, activist, and journalist who teaches at the College of new rochelle and the City College of new york. his most recent publication is Civil Rights—Yesterday and Today (Publications International Limited, 2010). RObERT CHRiSMAN is founding editor of The Black Scholar journal. Formerly chair of the Black Studies Department at the University of nebraska, Omaha, his most recent book is Robert Hayden Essays on the Poetry, coedited with Laurence 316 . CONTRibUTORS Goldstein (University of Michigan Press, 2001). he is currently preparing a collection of essays for publication. DONALD R. DESKiNS JR. is professor emeritus of urban geography and sociology at the University of Michigan. his most recent publication is Presidential Elections, 1789–2008: County, State and National Mapping of Election Data (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010). CHERyL i. HARRiS is the rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor of Civil Liberties and Civil rights at the UCLA School of Law. She is the author of many works on critical race theory including the highly influential “Whiteness as Property,” Harvard Law Review. CHARLES P. HENRy is the h. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. his most recent book is Long Overdue : The Politics of Racial Reparations (new york: new york University Press, 2007). DwigHT N. HOPKiNS is professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. he is author of Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion. JOHN L. JACKSON teaches in the Departments of religion and Sociology/Anthropology at Denison University, where he serves as associate professor of Black Studies and director of the Center for Black Studies. he is author of “Beyond the Quest for Paradigmatic Coherence: Double Consciousness, Afrocentricity, and Multicontextualism in Black Studies,” International Journal of Africana Studies (Spring/Summer 2005). MAULANA KARENgA is professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Africana Studies at California State University at Long Beach. he has played a significant role in black intellectual and political culture since the 1960s, especially in such educational and social movements as Black Studies, Black Power, Black Arts, Independent Schools, Afrocentricity, ancient egyptian studies, Ifa ethical studies, the Million Person Marches, and reparations. RObiN D. g. KELLEy is professor of American Studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. his most recent book is Thelonious Monk: The Life & Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009). MARTiN KiLSON is Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government emeritus at harvard University. he is the author of many works including The Making of Black Intel- CONTRibUTORS . 317 lectuals (University of Missouri Press, forthcoming) and is preparing a book titled Barack Obama’s Road to the White House. CLARENCE LUSANE is professor of political science at American University. he is the author of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race and the New American Century (Praeger, 2006) and his newest publication is The Black History of the White House (City Lights, 2010). JULiANNE MALvEAUx is an economist, author, and president of Bennett College for Women. her most recent book is Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History (Last Word Productions, 2010). SHAUN OSSEi-OwUSU is a PhD student in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. DiANNE M. PiNDERHUgHES, formerly president of the American Political Science Association 2007–2008, is a notre Dame Presidential Faculty Fellow who holds appointments in the Departments of African Studies and of Political Science of the University of notre Dame. SHERMAN C. PUCKETT is currently employed in the Department of Public Services in Wayne County, Michigan. his most recent publication is Presidential Elections, 1789–2008: County, State and National Mapping of Election Data (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010). SCHARN RObiNSON earned...