Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Contributors

Contributors Gislene Aparecida dos Santos of São Paulo, Brazil, is a member of the Graduate Board on Human Rights of the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo and is an assistant professor in the university’s Department of Public Policy. She was recently nominated to the Universidade de São Paulo’s Public Policy Commission on Blacks and has also carried out postdoctoral research on race and society at King’s College, London. Her published books include Universidade, formação, cidadania (2000), A invenção do ser negro (2001; 2006), Estudos sobre Ética (2002), and Mulher negra, homem branco: Um breve estudo do feminino negro (2004). She has a forthcoming book, Percepções da diferença, and is engaged in research on the politics of recognition and on affirmative action in Brazil. Denise Y. Arnold is an Anglo-Bolivian anthropologist. Her interests include kinship and gender, Andean literatures, textual practices and visual languages, and methodologies and data interpretation. She has been a Leverhulme Research Fellow and an ERSC Senior Research Fellow in England , and she is currently teaching at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) and Universidad para la Investigación Estratégica en Bolivia (UPIEB ) in La Paz, Bolivia, and the Universidad de Tarapacá in Chile. She is a visiting research professor at Birbeck College in London and the director of the Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara in Bolivia. Among her recent publications are River of Fleece, River of Song (2001); “The Nature of Indigenous Literatures in the Andes: Aymara, Quechua and Others,” in Literary Cultures of Latin America: A Comparative History (2004); The Metamorphosis of Heads: Textual Struggles, Education and Land in the Andes (2006); and Hilos sueltos: Los Andes desde el textil (2007). Jerome Branche is an associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature (2006), the editor of 280 / Contributors and a contributor to Lo que teníamos que tener: Raza y revolución en Nicol ás Guillén (2003), and the coeditor (with Ellen Cohn and John Mullennix) of and a contributor to Diversity across the Curriculum: A Practical Guide for Faculty (2007). His articles have appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, The Afro-Hispanic Review, The Bulletin of Latin American Research, and the Latin American Research Review, among others. He is currently working on a book on transatlantic black poetics. Carolle Charles is an associate professor of sociology at Baruch College. Her research and teaching concentrate on processes and agencies both in Haitian society and within the Haitian immigrant communities of North America, especially three interconnected areas of research: labor migration and transnational patterns of migrants’ identities; the dynamic of race, culture , and history; and gender and empowerment. She received a Fulbright award for study in Haiti in 2000–2001. She has been on the editorial boards of the journals Gender and Society, Identity, a journal of transnationalism, and Wadabaguei, a journal of Caribbean studies. She is also a member of many scholarly organizations, among others, the American Sociological Association , the Latin American Studies Association, and the Haitian Studies Association. She currently serves on the executive boards of the Caribbean Studies Association and the Haitian Studies Association. Her essays have appeared in many scholarly journals and as book chapters. Michael Handelsman’s principal teaching interests are Latin American narrative, Ecuadorian literature and culture, concepts of national identity, women writers, literary journals, Afro-Hispanic literature, and globalization . He has been the recipient of a research grant from the Organization of American States and of six Fulbright fellowships. His most recent book, Leyendo la globalización desde la mitad del mundo: Identidad y resistencias en el Ecuador received the Isabel Tobar Guarderas Award for outstanding book published in the social sciences in Ecuador in 2005 and the A. B. Thomas Book Award from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (2006). Among his other published books are Amazonas y artistas: Un estudio de la prosa de la mujer ecuatoriana (1978), El modernismo en las revistas literarias del Ecuador: 1895–1930 (1981), Incursiones en el mundo literario del Ecuador (1987), En torno al verdadero Benjamín Carrión (1989), El ideario de Benjamín Carrión (1992), Lo afro y la plurinacionalidad: El caso ecuatoriano visto desde su literatura (1999; 2001), and Culture and Customs of Ecuador Contributors / 281 (2000...