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  • Contributors

Nijah Cunningham is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the editorial assistant for Small Axe. He is currently working on a dissertation that focuses on literature, performance, and the question of a black aesthetic that emerges from the 1960s moment across three African and African diasporic nodes—Senegal, Jamaica, and the United States.

Laura Facey is a Jamaican sculptor whose work spans forty years. She was trained at the Jamaica School of Art. Her controversial Redemption Song is a monument to slave emancipation, commissioned by the government of Jamaica in 2002. Also significant among her works is Their Spirits Gone before Them (2006), an installation of a sixteen-foot cottonwood canoe housing hundreds of the miniature resin figures of the Redemption Song monument.

Kaiama L. Glover is associate professor in the Department of French and the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the French Review, Small Axe, Research in African Literatures, Journal of Postcolonial Writings, and the Journal of Haitian Studies. Her book Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon was published in 2010. Her current project considers the ethics of narcissism and configurations of the feminine in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean fiction.

Farah Jasmine Griffin is William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of "Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative (1995) and If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (2001), and coauthor, with Salim Washington, of Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (2008).

Robert A. Hill is professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became a professor of history in 1977, and is currently John S. Hinkley Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is editor-in-chief of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers (1983-), eleven volumes to date. He is also the editor of numerous historical editions, among them Marcus Garvey's Black Man, Cyril Briggs's Crusader, The FBI's RACON, and George S. Schuyler's Black Empire and Ethiopian Stories. In addition, he is the literary executor of the C. L. R. James Estate. In October 1992 he was awarded the Gold Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica for his distinguished contribution to history. [End Page 281]

Richard Iton teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left (2000), In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2008), and Rhizome A (forthcoming).

Leigh Raiford is associate professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where her teaching and research interests focus on photography, film, and art of the African diaspora. She is the author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (2011) and coeditor, with Renee Romano, of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (2006).

David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, and is at present a visiting professor at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. His latest book, Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice, is to be published by Duke University Press in 2013.

Faith Smith is associate professor at Brandeis University, where she currently chairs the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. She edited Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean (2011) and is currently working on a book project titled "Whose Modern? Caribbean Cultural and Intellectual Formation, 1885-1915." [End Page 282]

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