List of Contributors

List of Contributors Christian Collet is Associate Professor of International Relations at International Christian University in Tokyo and has held positions at University of California, Irvine, Doshisha University, and Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, where he was a visiting scholar under the Fulbright program. Collet's research lies at the intersection of public opinion, race/ethnicity, and the Pacific Rim and has appeared in The Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly , Amerasia Journal as well as publications with the University of California Press and Rowman Littlefield. He is currently co-editing (with Pei-te Lien) The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans (forthcoming, Temple University Press) and is co-authoring a book (with Hiroko Furuya) on Vietnamese Americans and Vietnam. Mica Pollock is Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. An anthropologist of education, she studies how adults and youth struggle daily over fundamental questions of racial inequality and diversity. She is the author of Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School (2004) and Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools (forthcoming) and the editor of Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real about Race in School (forthcoming). Carolyn Martin Shaw is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on colonial and postcolonial discourse, social change, women , and sexuality in Kenya and Zimbabwe. Her major work on Kenya is Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex and Class in Kenya (1995). Her articles, "Turning her Back on the Moon: Virginity , Sexuality, and Mothering in Works of Yvonne Vera" and '"You had a daughter, but I am Becoming a Woman': Sexuality , Feminism, and Post-coloniality in Tsitsi Dangarembga 's Nervous Conditions" and She No Longer Weeps, were recently published in Research in African Literatures. Nancy D. Wadsworth studies cultural and historical aspects of American politics as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. She is currently finishing a book project, Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelical Racial Reconciliation Efforts in American Political Culture and is also editing a volume with Professor Robin Jacobson of the University of Puget Sound on the intersection of race and faith in American political life. She serves in the Religion and Social Change concentration of the University of Denver's Joint Ph.D. Committee with the Iliff School of Theology. spring 2008 343 LIST of contributors Daniel Widener has worked politically with Roots Against War, the Venceremos Brigade, the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights, the Labor Community Strategy Center, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. His political education began at the Echo Park-Silverlake People's Childcare Center . To make ends meet, he teaches history at the University of California, San Diego. RACE/ETHNICITY VOL. I/NO. 2 344 ...