About the Contributors
Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. Before coming to Goldsmiths in 2004, she was based in Women's Studies at Lancaster University for ten years. She works at the intersection among feminist theory, critical race studies, postcolonial theory, and queer studies. Her publications include: Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (1998); Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-coloniality (2000); The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006).
Emma Amos is Professor II and Chair of the Visual Arts Department at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. A graduate of Antioch College, the Central School of Art in London, and NY University, Amos has shown widely in the States and abroad. Her work is in many public and private collections, including the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Library of Congress, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. During the 1960's Amos was the sole female member of The Spiral, the group of black painters that included Romare Bearden and Norman Lewis. Writing on the artist can be found in Lisa Farrington's Creating Their Own Image (Oxford University Press 2005), bell hooks' Art on My Mind,Visual Politics (The New Press), and other publications and videos.
Elisabeth Armstrong is Assistant Professor in the Program for Wom- en's and Gender Studies at Smith College. She is the author of The Retreat from Organization: U.S. Feminism Reconceptualized (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002). She is working on a book entitled "Neoliberalisms Other: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics."
Joanne Barker (Lenape [Delaware Tribe of Indians]) is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is working on a book manuscript. She has published articles in Cultural Studies; Inscriptions; [End Page 222] Wicazô Úa Review: A Native American Studies Journal; American Indian Culture and Research Journal; This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation; and Beyond the Frame. She has edited Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005).
Winnifred Brown-Glaude is a sociologist and research analyst at the Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University. Her primary field of research includes race, gender, and the informal economy of Jamaica. She is currently working on her book entitled "'Woman out a Road': Bodies, (Public) Space and Women's Informal Work in Jamaica."
Linda Chavez-Thompson was born August 3, 1944, in Lubbock, Texas, one of eight children born to Felipe and Genoveva Chavez. She joined her parents in the cotton fields at the age of ten; she quit school at sixteen and went to work. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, she went to work for the Laborers' International Union and served as secretary for the Lubbock local; as the only Spanish-speaking union officer, she represented all of the Hispanic workers within the local. Four years later, she went to work for AFSCME in San Francisco and rose through the ranks to be its international vice president (1988-96). In 1995, she was elected executive vice president (third-ranking officer) of the AFL-CIO, the first woman and first person of color to hold such a high office within the union. She was relected to this office in 1997 and 2001. She also serves as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and is an executive member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
Nikky Finney is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze (1985), Rice (1995), Heartwood (1998), and The World Is Round (2003). Her contagious energy and passion for writing extend beyond academia. She travels extensively, reading to listeners, staying connected and engaged, and maintaining her commitment...
