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Contributors Derek H. Alderman is a professor of cultural and historical geography at East Carolina University and a former editor of the peer-reviewed journal Southeastern Geographer. He has written widely on the role of change, continuity, and contest in shaping the landscape of the American South, focusing particular attention on race relations, tourism, and public commemoration in the region. He is the coauthor , with Owen Dwyer, of Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory (2008). Owen J. Furuseth is the associate provost for metropolitan studies and extendedacademicprograms ,andaprofessorofgeographyattheUniversityof North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his Ph.D. in geography and resource planning from Oregon State University. His research interests are centered around community planning, especially social and community change associated with population growth. Over the past several years, his research has focused on examining Latino immigrant experiences in the state of North Carolina, and, more specifically, the Charlotte metropolitan region. This work has included research and community engagement activities addressing the receptivity of community groups and service providers to new immigrants, the spatial mismatch surrounding health care provision , and the impact of new immigrants as agents for economic development and community redevelopment. Dr. Furuseth is on the board of directors of the Latin American Coalition, Charlotte’s largest Hispanic service organization. He also serves as unc Charlotte’s liaison to the Fundacion Comunitaria del Bajio (Bajio Community Foundation), an organization working in Guanajuato state, Mexico, to strengthen rural communities experiencing high rates of immigration to the United States, especially North Carolina. José L. S. Gámez is an associate professor of architecture, a member of the Latin American studies faculty, and a Research Fellow with the Institute for Social Capital (2008–09) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He also serves as the coordinator of the Design+Society Research Center for the School of Architecture and the College of Arts+Architecture. His research and design practices explore questions of cultural identity in architecture and urban design, the impacts of Latino immigration upon urban space, and critical practices in Chicano art. His researchispublished in Aztlán: A Journalof ChicanoStudiesandPlaces:AForum of Environmental Design. He has also authored essays that appear in the edited books 292 Contributors Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader (2008) and Expanding Architecture: Design As Activism (2008). He has taught at Portland State University and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas prior to joining the faculty at unc Charlotte. He received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M, his Master of Architecture from uc Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in architecture from the University of California at Los Angeles. David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A native of Memphis, he grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor of fourteen books dealing with the history of the American South, including two works, Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region (1982) and Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture (1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in history, and both received the Mayflower Award for nonfiction . Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History appeared in 2002 and received the Jules and Frances Landry Award and was named by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title. His most recent book is Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2003. Goldfield is the editor of the Encyclopedia of American Urban History, published by Sage Publications in 2007. He is currently working on a reinterpretation of the Civil War, “Rebirth of a Nation: America during the Civil War Era,” for Bloomsbury Publishing Co. The Organization of American Historians named him Distinguished Lecturer in 2001. Goldfield is the editor of the Journal of Urban History and a coauthor of The American Journey: A History of the United States (2009). He also serves as an expert witness in voting rights and death penalty cases, as a consultant on the urban South to museums and public television and radio, and works with the U.S. State Department as an academic specialist, leading workshops on American history and culture in foreign countries. William Graves is an associate professor and John H. Biggs Faculty Fellow in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. During 2005–06 Dr. Graves was a GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellow in the Economic Development of North Carolina at...