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>> 393 About the Contributors Vivek Bald is an associate professor of writing and digital media in the program in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press, 2013) and the director of three documentary films: Taxi-vala/Auto-biography (1994), Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music (2003), and In Search of Bengali Harlem (forthcoming). Miabi Chatterji received her PhD in American Studies from New York University. She is preparing a manuscript that examines the workings of race, gender, documentation status, and class in the low-wage urban service economy, focusing on the experiences of recent immigrants from South Asia in New York City. She is the president of the board of directors of the RESIST Foundation, based in Somerville, Massachusetts. Amanda Ciafone is an assistant professor of media and cinema studies at The College of Media at the University of Illinois-Champaign. She is currently working on a manuscript tentatively entitled Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation. Gayatri Gopinath is an associate professor and director of the Asian/ Pacific/American Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2005). Farah Hasan is a software professional who works in New Jersey. She graduated from Temple University with a master’s degree in computer 394 > 395 of Ours to Master and Own: Worker Control from the Commune to the Present (Haymarket Books 2012. Since 1999, Ness has been editor of Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, an international peerreview quarterly social science journal examining labor and social class in an international context. Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and professor of international Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of several books, including Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today (New Press, 2012); Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press, 2012); The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (New Press, 2007); Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Beacon Press, 2002); and The Karma of Brown Folk (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Junaid Rana is an associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2011). Sujani Reddy is Five College Assistant Professor of Asian/Pacific/American Studies in the Department of American Studies at Amherst College . She is currently working on the manuscript for Nursing Globalization : Indian Nurses Immigrate to the United States. Nayan Shah is a professor and chair of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Stranger Intimacy : Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (University of California Press, 2011); Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (University of California Press, 2001); and “Sexuality, Identity and the Uses of History” (Routledge, 1998). Seema Sohi is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is currently completing the book Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Empire, and Indian Radicalism on the Pacific Coast. 396 << ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Linta Varghese teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is currently working on a manuscript examining the moral economies produced in the interactions between the Indian state and Indian diasporic entrepreneurs. Manu Vimalassery is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University. His manuscript Skew Tracks: Imperialism, Racial Capitalism, and the Transcontinental Railroad rethinks capitalism through Plains Indian and Chinese migrant histories. ...

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