Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem

Contributors

431 Contributors Davarian L. Baldwin is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, Connecticut, and author of Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. He is editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: Using the Present to Excavate the Past. His recent projects are Land of Darkness: Chicago and the Making of Race in Modern America and UniverCities: How Higher Education Is Transforming Urban America. Anastasia Curwood is assistant professor of African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University and a visiting fellow at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference at Emory University. She specializes in the history of African American women, gender, and sexuality; the black family; and African American intellectual, political, and cultural history in the twentieth century. She is the author of Stormy Weather: New Negro Marriages between the Two World Wars and is working on a book about Shirley Chisholm. Frank Guridy is associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow, which won the Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians and the Wesley-Logan Book Prize from the American Historical Association. He is coeditor of Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino/a America. Claudrena Harold is associate professor of African American and African studies and history at the University of Virginia. She is author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South and is working on a manuscript on New Negro politics in the Jim Crow South. She is coeditor of The Punitive Turn: Race, Prisons, Justice, and Inequality. Jeannette Eileen Jones is associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is author of In Search of Brightest Africa: 432 CONTRIBUTORS Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884–1936 and coeditor of Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Andrew W. Kahrl is assistant professor of history at Marquette University. He is author of The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South. His research focuses on the legal, economic, and environmental history of coastal real estate development, tax policy and administration , and African American property ownership in the twentieth-century United States. He is working on books on the open beaches movement in 1970s Connecticut and on the history of property assessments and tax liens in black America. Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination ; and Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times. Shannon King is assistant professor of history at the College of Wooster. He is writing a book on community and working-class politics in Harlem in the early twentieth century. Charles Lester received his PhD in history from the University of Cincinnati. His dissertation examined the role of jazz and jazz musicians in forging cultural, economic, political, and civic institutions in New Orleans, Chicago, and NewYork City in the first decades of the twentieth century. Thabiti Lewis is associate professor of English, African American studies, and American studies at Washington State University Vancouver. He is author of Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America and editor of Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara. He is working on projects on Toni Cade Bambara’s fiction and masculinity and race in American sports museums. Treva Lindsey is assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Her research and teaching interests include African American women’s history, black popular and expressive culture, black feminism(s), critical race and gender theory, sexual politics, and African diaspora studies. Her work has been published in the Journal of African American Studies, the Journal of Pan-African Studies, and African and Black Diaspora. She is writing a book on New Negro womanhood in Washington, D.C. CONTRIBUTORS 433 David Luis-Brown is associate professor of English and cultural studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is author of Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. Emily Lutenski...