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  • Contributors

Inna Arzumanova
Inna Arzumanova is a fourth-year PhD student in communication and an Annenberg Fellow in the Annenberg School for Communication at USC. Her work focuses on racial performativity and masquerade in pop culture's transnational dialogues.

Andrew M. Busch
Andrew M. Busch is a doctoral candidate in the American studies department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also teaches. He has published essays on urban and regional foodways and urban growth. His dissertation investigates the intersections among urban growth, political economy, and cultural production in Austin, Texas, from 1928 to the present.

Marlene L. Daut
Marlene L. Daut is assistant professor of English and cultural studies at the Claremont Graduate University and is affiliated with the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies at the Claremont Colleges. Her articles on American and Haitian literature have appeared in Small Axe, South Atlantic Review, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Comparative Literature (forthcoming). Her current book project is titled Un-Silencing the Past: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a professor of geography in the doctoral program in earth and environmental sciences at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and is currently president of the American Studies Association (ASA). Her book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, and Opposition in Globalizing California (University of California Press, 2007) received ASA's Lora Romero First Book Award. Her wide-ranging research interests include race and gender, labor and social movements, uneven development, and the African diaspora.

Sara Clarke Kaplan
Sara Clarke Kaplan is an assistant professor of ethnic studies and critical gender studies and faculty affiliate of African American studies at the University of [End Page 441] California, San Diego. Her work has appeared in Callaloo, American Literary History, and Black Women, Gender, and Families.

Robin D. G. Kelley
Robin D. G. Kelley is professor of history and American studies at the University of Southern California. His books include Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009); Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990); Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (1994); and Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997).

Sarah-Jane Mathieu
Sarah-Jane Mathieu is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota and the author of North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955. Her new project, 1919: Race, Riot, and Revolution, explores global outbreaks of racialized violence during the Great War era.

Sean Metzger
Sean Metzger is assistant professor of English, theater studies, and Asian and Middle Eastern studies at Duke University. He has coedited three volumes: with Gina Masequesmay, Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (Lexington Books, 2009); with Olivia Khoo, Time Signatures: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (Intellect, 2009); and, with Michaeline Crichlow, a special issue, "Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World," for Cultural Dynamics (2009).

Kathy M. Newman
Kathy M. Newman is associate professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her first book, Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947, was published in 2004. She is currently working on book titled Striking Images: Labor, Class, and Culture in the 1950s. She is also an occasional union organizer, a political artist, a wife, and a mother of two small children.

Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Kevin Lewis O'Neill is assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He is the author of City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala (University [End Page 442] of California Press, 2010) and coeditor of Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation (Duke University Press, 2009) as well as Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala (Duke University Press, 2011). He is currently writing a book on gangs and God in Guatemala.

Marion Rohrleitner
Marion Rohrleitner is assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in women's studies and African American studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research has been published in Antípodas, and her book project, Diasporic Bodies: Contemporary Historical Fictions and the Intimate Public Sphere, is currently under review...

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