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Contributors Nicholas De Genova has taught anthropology at Columbia University and Stanford University. In the autumn of 2009, he held the Swiss Chair in Mobility Studies as a visiting professor at the University of Bern. In the spring of 2010, he was a visiting professor in the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (2005), co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2003), editor of Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (2006), and co-editor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (2010). He is completing a new book, titled The Spectacle of Terror: Immigration, Race, and the Homeland Security State. Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores is an assistant professor in the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the use of gates to prevent crime in Puerto Rico and their consequences for urban community life in private and public housing communities . Her publications include “Temporary Housing, Permanent Communities : Public Housing Policy and Design in Puerto Rico”in the Journal of Urban History and“From the Disco to the Projects: Urban Spatial Aesthetics and Policy to the Beat of Reggaeton” in the Centro Journal. Elena Padilla is a fellow at the New York Academy of Medicine and was previously a scholar-in-residence at Saint Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. After receiving her B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, she was awarded a scholarship for graduate study at the University of Chicago, where she earned an M.A. in anthropology. Upon earning her doctorate from Columbia University, where she was a co-author of The People of Puerto Rico (1956), she pursued advanced studies in anthropology and economic history at the London School of Economics. She is author of several books and articles related to U.S. Puerto Ricans including Up from Puerto Rico (1958). Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. She is the author of National Performances: Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago (2003) and co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2003). She has also published various articles on issues of citizenship, race, and space in relation to U.S. Latinos and Latin American populations. Her current work—Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark—focuses on contemporary conceptions of “racial democracy,” affect, and neoliberalism among Brazilians and Puerto Ricans in Newark, New Jersey, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Santurce, Puerto Rico. Mérida M. Rúa is an associate professor of Latina/o studies and American studies at Williams College. Her research explores the complex ethnoracial dimensions of identity and space and their necessary connections through an analysis of the history and politics of Puerto Rican identity and community life in the city of Chicago. She is completing her first book, A Grounded Identidad: Places of Memory and Personhood in Chicago’s Puerto Rican Neighborhoods. Arlene Torres is the director of the City University of New York’s Latino Faculty Initiative. As a cultural anthropologist who focuses on the study of race and ethnicity, she has conducted research in the Anglophone and Hispanic Caribbean and in the United States. Her current research builds upon the work “Collecting Puerto Ricans” in Kevin Yelvington’s Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora (2004), which focuses on the racialization of ethnic groups in museum settings. Other published works include volumes 1 and 2 of Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean: Social Dynamics and Cultural Transformations (1998), co-edited with Norman E.Whitten Jr.As a public intellectual,Torres serves as a member of the advisory board and consultant to a national project on race,“Understanding Race and Human Variation: A Public Education Program,” supported by the American Anthropological Association, the Ford Foundation, and National Science Foundation. 208 contributors ...