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311 Contributors JudithM.Anderson received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Florida and is an independent scholar. She continues to research themes of identity and race among Afro-descendants in Argentina. Amanda D. Concha-Holmes is a research associate in agricultural education and communicationattheUniversityofFlorida.Asavisualandecologicalanthropologist, herinterestsareinthedocumentationofecologicalandculturalresourcesthroughfilm and media that emphasize local perspectives and grassroots movements in a critical examination of African Diaspora knowledges, particularly embodied and applied pedagogical systems, representations and identity-formations, religion and ecology, andtheethics,praxis,andalternativepartnershipsofdevelopmentandconservation. DariénJ.DavisisprofessorofhistoryandinternationalstudiesatMiddleburyCollege, and director of the Latin American Studies program. His major areas of research are Brazilian and Spanish American social and cultural history, African and “Latino” Diasporas in the Atlantic world, and transnationalism. LaurenDerbyisassociateprofessorofmodernLatinAmericanhistoryattheUniversity of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on politics and popular culture in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Contributors 312 MamyrahA.Dougé-ProsperisadoctoralcandidateintheDepartmentofGlobaland Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. Her research focuses on socialmovements,postcolonialnation-states,gender,race,class,sexuality,andHaiti. FayeV.HarrisonisjointprofessorofanthropologyandAfricanAmericanstudiesatthe University of Florida. Her publications include Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global PerspectivesonRace,Gender,andHumanRights (2005, ed.) and OutsiderWithin:Reworking Anthropologyin theGlobalAge (2008). JulietHooker isassociateprofessorofgovernmentandAfricanandAfricanDiaspora Studies and associate director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American StudiesattheUniversityofTexasatAustin.Herresearchfocusesonmulticulturalism, race and nationalism in Latin America, and African American and Latin American political thought. Leonardo Reales Jiménez is a PhD candidate in political science at the New School University in New York. He works as a content advisor for the Afro-Latinos Project. Hisresearchfocusesonethnicleadership,politicalparticipation,communitydevelopment , human rights, and Afro-descendant issues. Paula A. Lezama is assistant director and academic adviser, Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of South Florida. Her research interests lie in economic and social development, and the analysis of poverty and inequality ,especiallywhenpertainingtoAfro-descendantpopulationsinLatinAmerica and the Caribbean. Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is assistant professor of comparative politics at Denison University. She specializes in racial politics in Brazil. Altagracia Balcácer Molina has been a Dominican activist for women and Afrodescendant rights for more than fifteen years. She studied economics in Moscow, andatColumbiaUniversityinNewYork.Ms.BalcacerisaprofessorattheUniversidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and has worked for the government and international organizationsintheareasofeducation,gender,women,economics,anddevelopment. Judith A. Morrison serves as the senior advisor for the Gender and Diversity unit at the Inter-American Development Bank. She is responsible for providing leadership C o ntrib uto rs 313 to the bank for analytical and operational work related to African-descendant and indigenouspopulationsthroughoutLatinAmericaandtheCaribbean.Shepreviously servedasregionaldirectorforSouthAmericaandtheCaribbeanattheInter-American Foundation, where she was responsible for managing staff and operations for the region .From2005to2007,MorrisonwasadirectorattheInter-AmericanDialogueand the executive director of the Inter-Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America (a consultativedonorconsortiumestablishedattheWorldBankwiththeInter-American Development Bank, Ford Foundation, Pan-American Health Organization, and Department for International Development–UK). TiannaS.PaschelisassistantprofessorofpoliticalscienceattheUniversityofChicago wheresheconductsresearchonrace,socialmovements,statepolicy,andglobalization in comparative perspective. Seth Racusen is associate professor of criminal justice and political science at Anna MariaCollege.Hisresearchfocusesontheuseoflawandpublicpolicytocontestracial inequalitiesinBrazil,andthetransnationalconstitutionofidentityandpublicpolicy. BerndReiter is associate professor of comparative politics at the University of South Florida, where he holds a joint appointment with the Department of Government and International Affairs and the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean. His research focuses on citizenship, democracy, and racialized exclusion. KimberlyEisonSimmonsisassociateprofessorofAnthropologyandAfricanAmerican Studies and director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on racial, gender, and identity formation in the AfricanDiaspora,AfricanAmericanculture,andAfro-Latinos/asintheUnitedStates. She is the author of Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic (2009). Dorotea Wilson is a prominent leader in Nicaragua’s “Atlantic Coast Autonomous Region,” and a member of the Sandinista National Executive. The region is now recognized as semi-autonomous under the Nicaraguan constitution. Ms. Wilson played aprominentroleintheestablishmentoftheregionandinfightingfortherightsofthe country’sindigenouspopulation.ShehasalsoservedasthemayorofPuertoCabezas, one of the major cities on the Atlantic Coast,and as a member of the National Parliament and the government of the Autonomous Region. She joined the Sandinistas in Contributors 314 1975 and was active in the underground movement against the Samoza dictatorship. She advocates for the rights of women of color in general, and those from rural areas in particular. She has written articles on the history of Nicaragua from the point of view of the oppressed. ...

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