About the Contributors
Rent from DeepDyve- About the Contributors
Bruce E. Baker is Senior Lecturer in United States History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published books on lynching and historical memory of Reconstruction. For the last four years, he has been affiliated with the "After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas" research project, and he is working on a related book about postbellum Greenville County, South Carolina.
Christopher A. Cooper is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs and Director of the Public Policy Institute at Western Carolina University. He recently co-edited The New Politics of North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2008) with H. Gibbs Knotts.
Hal Crowther is a North Carolina essayist and critic who received the Baltimore Sun's H. L. Mencken Award for Writing in 1993. A former newsmagazine editor and syndicated columnist, he is the author of the essay collections Unarmed But Dangerous, Cathedrals of Kudzu, and Gather at the River, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism in 2006. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Adam Gussow is an associate professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is also a professional blues harmonica player and teacher, as well as a member of the Harlem blues duo "Satan and Adam." His essay "Where Is the Love? Racial Wounds, Racial Healing, and Blues Communities" was reprinted in Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader, 1993-2008. He is working on a new book about the devil and the blues tradition.
H. Gibbs Knotts is Associate Professor and Department Head in the Department of Political Science and Public Affairs at Western Carolina University. His chapter, "Don't Whistle Past Dixie Yet," appears in A Paler Shade of Red: The 2008 Presidential Election in the South (University of Arkansas Press, 2009), edited by DuBose Kapeluck, Larry W. Moreland, and Robert P. Steed.
Peter Makuck, founding editor of Tar River Poetry from 1978 to 2006, lives on the southern Outer Banks. His stories, poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, and Poetry. His most recent book, Long Lens: New & Selected Poems, was published in April by BOA Editions, Ltd.
Ali Colleen Neff is a writer, musician, and Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Studies at UNC. She is researching women rappers and Sufi praise singers in Senegal. Her Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story (University Press of Mississippi, 2009) was based on her previous work with blues/gospel musicians and rappers in Mississippi. [End Page 120]
