Contributors
- Contributors
Keisha N. Blain is a historian of the twentieth-century United States with broad interdisciplinary interests and specializations in African American history, the modern African diaspora, and women’s and gender studies. Her research interests include black internationalism, radical politics, and global feminism. She completed a B.A. in history and Africana studies from Binghamton University (SUNY) and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. She is currently an assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa. Her forthcoming book, Contesting the Global Color Line: Black Women, Nationalist Politics, and Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press), uncovers the crucial role women played in building black nationalist and internationalist protest movements in the United States and other parts of the African diaspora from the early twentieth century to the 1950s.
Judith A. Byfield is an associate professor in the History Department at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her current research focuses on women’s social and economic history in colonial Nigeria. She is the author of The Bluest Hands: A Social and Economic History of Women Indigo Dyers in Western Nigeria, 1890–1940 (Heinemann, 2002), as well as articles in edited volumes and journals such as Meridians: A Journal on Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism, Journal of African History, and Canadian Journal of African Studies. She is the editor of Cross Currents: Building Bridges across American Nigerian Studies (Book Builders [Nigeria], 2009), and she is coeditor of Africa and World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland (Indiana University Press, 2010).
Brandon R. Byrd is an assistant professor of history at Vanderbilt University. His current book project examines the ways in which middle-class and elite African Americans conceptualized a link between Haitian independence and [End Page 224] the prospects for black progress and racial equality in the post-emancipation United States.
Dorothy Stringer teaches at Temple University. She is the author of “Not Even Past”: Race, Subjectivity, and Historical Trauma in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten (Fordham, 2010), as well as articles on Richard Wright, Junot Díaz, and Samuel R. Delany. [End Page 225]
