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Contributors Sandra L. Barnes is a professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Development (HOD) and the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Her resarch interests include the sociology of religion, urban sociology, and inequality. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Duke University. He is author of Racism without Racists : Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Derrick R. Brooms is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Louisville and studies African American male achievement. Trenita Brookshire Childers is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. Her research interests include social stratification, inequality, medical sociology, and race and ethnicity. Louwanda Evans is an assistant professor of sociology at Millsaps College . Her work examines race, class, gender, and emotional labor among African American pilots. Joe Feagin is professor of sociology at Texas A&M University and author of dozens of books and articles on race, including Racist America : Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. Loren Henderson is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Northeastern Illinois University. Her research focuses on stratification; health disparities; diversity issues; and race, class, gender, and sexuality. 195 196 • Contributors Cedric D. Herring is professor of sociology and public affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago and editor of African Americans and the Public Agenda: The Paradoxes of Public Policy. Hayward Derrick Horton is professor of sociology and public affairs at the State University of New York at Albany and coeditor of Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the “Color-Blind” Era. Tiffany D. Joseph is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Stony Brook University and researches the U.S.–Brazilian Diaspora. Robert L. Reece is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Duke University and cofounder of the blog Still Furious and Still Brave: Who’s Afraid of Persistent Blackness? Zandria F. Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Sociology at the University of Memphis. Her research interests include race, class, gender, and sexuality; urban sociology; popular culture; and feminism, with a focus on black feminist theory. Antonio D. Tillis is associate professor and chair of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College and editor of Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature. Earl Wright II is professor of Africana studies at the University of Cincinnati and coeditor of this volume. ...

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