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Greg Grandin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at New York University. He is the author of The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation, which won the 2001 Bryce Wood Award. His new book, The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. He has recently published essays in The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and A Companion to Post-1945 America (Blackwell, 2002).

Daniel James is Bernardo Mendel Professor of Latin American History at Indiana University and codirector of the Center for the Study of History and Memory. His last book was Doña Maria’s Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity (Duke University Press, 2000). He is currently collaborating on the project “Berisso Obrero” with Mirta Lobato.

Mirta Zaida lobato teaches history in the University of Buenos Aires and serves on the executive committee of the Interdisciplinary Program in Women’s Studies, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. She is also a founding editor of the journal Entrepasados. Her last book was La vida en las fábricas: Trabajo, protesta y política en una comunidad obrera, Berisso (1904–1970) (Ed. Prometeo Libros; Entrepasados, 2001). She is currently codirector of the “Berisso Obrero” project.

Deborah Poole is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her current research focuses on political culture, racial discourse, and the state in Peru and Mexico. She is the author of Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World (Princeton University Press, 1997).

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