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C O N T R I B U T O R S LUCIUS J. BARKER is William Bennett Munro Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stanford University. His publications include a number of books, articles , and essays; including co-author of a leading constitutional law textbook. His most recent publication is “Political Scientists as Gatekeepers: Overcoming Inequality in Our Own Backyard,” in Perspectives in Politics (June 2005). Professor Barker retains an active career in research and writing, and is presently coauthoring with Kevin Lyles a biographical type study entitled Taking on the System: Thurgood Marshall, Warrior for Justice. LORRIE A. FRASURE (PhD, University of Maryland–College Park) is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University. Her fields of study include American politics and urban political economy, with specialties in immigrant and ethnic minority politics, suburbanization, urban politics, public policy, as well as research design and methods. She is working on a book manuscript examining post-1980 immigrant and ethnic minority migration patterns and suburban local governance . Frasure was a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow as well as a Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Doctoral Scholar. BARBARA L. GRAHAM (PhD, Washington University–St. Louis, 1984) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Graham ’s areas of research are in judicial politics and critical race theory. Her most recent publication is “Toward an Understanding of Judicial Diversity in American Courts” (2004). She is currently working on a manuscript on judicial selection and racial and ethnic diversity in federal and state courts. MELISSA HARRIS-LACEWELL (PhD, Duke) is Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University. She is author the award-winning book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2004). Her academic research has been published in C O N T R I B U T O R S 435 scholarly journals and edited volumes and her interests include the study of African American political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology. She is at work on a new book, For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn’t Enough. It is an examination of the connections between shame, sadness, and strength in African American women’s politics. ERROL A. HENDERSON (PhD, University of Michigan) is Associate Professor of Political Science and African/African American Studies, Penn State University . His most recent book is Democracy and War: The End of an Illusion. LENNEAL HENDERSON is currently Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Administration and a Senior Fellow in the William Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore, as well as the Daniel T. Blue Endowed Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University in Durham. He has edited Black Political Life in the U.S., authored Administrative Advocacy: Black Administrators in Urban Bureaucracy, and co-edited Public Administration and Public Policy: A Minority Perspective and The New Black Politics : The Search for Political Power. He is working on a forthcoming book on bureaucracy and developing nations. GERMAINE A. HOSTON (PhD, Harvard University) is Professor of Chinese and Japanese Politics and Philosophy at University of California–San Diego. The author of numerous articles and several books on comparative Chinese and Japanese and European political philosophy and political economy (Princeton University Press), she has been Vice President of the American Political Science Association, Co-Chair of the North East Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, and Chair of the Competing Modernities in 20th Century Japan Conference Series. She is currently completing a comparative study of liberation theologies in East and West. OLLIE A. JOHNSON III received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and now teaches Africana Studies at Wayne State University. He is the author of Brazilian Party Politics and the Coup of 1964 and co-editor of Black Political Organizations in the Post–Civil Rights Era. He is currently researching Black Politics in the United States and Latin America. VALERIE C. JOHNSON (PhD, University of Maryland–College Park, 1995) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and the author of Black Power in the Suburbs: The Myth or Reality of African American Suburban Political Incorporation, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. VERNON D. JOHNSON (PhD, Washington State University, 1985) is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Western Washington University. He has authored several scholarly and popular articles on issues ranging from revolution...