Contributors
- Contributors
Carla Burnett, cburnett6@ccc.edu, is an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Harold Washington College in Chicago, IL. Burnett earned her M.A. in Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. in History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a section editor and contributor to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: Caribbean Series, edited by Robert Hill.
Kaysha Corinealdi, kaysha.corinealdi@aya.yale.edu, is currently a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Columbia University’s Institute for Latin American Studies, where she is working on her first book manuscript, Redefining Home: West Indian Panamanians and Transnational Politics of Race, Citizenship and Diaspora, 1928–1970. Her areas of research include the intersections of nationalism and migration, critical race and gender studies, and histories of activism in the Americas.
Sharika Crawford, scrawfor@usna.edu, is an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy. Her research focuses on the English-speaking black communities of the Spanish-speaking circum-Caribbean. She has recently published in the New West Indian Guide. Her work in progress includes a book length project tentatively titled The Turtlers: Transnational Migrants of the Maritime Caribbean.
Emily F. Davidson, efdavidson@ucdavis.edu, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Davis, where she specializes in contemporary Latin American literary and cultural studies with an emphasis on Caribbean, Chicano/Latino and Transnational American studies. She is currently working on her dissertation, “Canal Memories: Race, Space and the Construction of Modern Panama,” which examines how Panamanians construct racial and national identities through and against their national symbol and patrimony—the Panama Canal.
Marzia Milazzo, marzia@umail.ucsb.edu, is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A study of the relation between the poetics and the politics of racial disavowal and antiracism, her dissertation examines the rhetorical contours of colorblindness discourse, and its implications for contemporary Afro-Panamanian, Black South African, [End Page 154] and Chicana/o literatures. Tracing colorblindness from the Americas to South Africa, this project illustrates that hegemonic racial discourse has far-reaching implications for literary representation, decolonial practice, and the production of knowledge across historical and national boundaries.
Claudia Milian, claudia.milian@duke.edu, is an Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, and the author of Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (University of Georgia Press, 2013). Her writings have appeared in A Companion to African American Studies; The Latin American Fashion Reader; A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies; LASA Forum; The C. L. R. James Journal: A Publication of the Caribbean Philosophical Association; Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies; Studies in Latin American Popular Culture; Nepantla: Views from South; and Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, among others. She is the co-editor, together with Arturo Arias, of a special issue of Latino Studies, “U.S. Central Americans: Representations, Agency, and Communities” (Summer 2013).
Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, i.nwankwo@Vanderbilt.Edu, is an Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, and Founding Director of Voices from Our America, a public humanities project. Her publications include Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth Century Americas, “The Promises and Perils of African American Hemispherism: Latin America in Martin Delany’s Blake and Gayl Jones’ Mosquito” (American Literary History 18:3 and Hemisphere and Nation, Robert S. Levine and Caroline Levander eds.),”Insider and Outsider, Black and American: Rethinking Zora Neale Hurston’s Caribbean Ethnography” (Radical History Review 87, Lisa Brock, Robin Kelly, and Karen Sotiropoulos eds.), and “Langston Hughes and the Translation of Nicolas Guillen’s Afro-Cuban Culture and Language” (Langston Hughes Review 16:1 & 2, Lesley Feracho ed.). Nwankwo is co-editor (with Mamadou Diouf) of Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World and editor of African Routes, Caribbean Roots, Latino Lives (Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies special issue) and Critical Approaches to Louise Bennett (Journal of West Indian Literature special issue). She is currently completing a...
