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the author of The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto
Rican Families.
Bandana Purkayastha is professor of sociology and Asian American studies at
the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-
Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World.
Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and
Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor
of Civil Rights at University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is an acclaimed
scholar of race, gender, and the law, and author of Killing the Black Body: Race,
Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty; and Fatal Intervention: How Science, Politics
and Big Business Re-Create Race in the 21st Century, among others.
Lillian B. Rubin lives and works in San Francisco. She is an internationally
known lecturer and writer. Some of her books include The Man with the Beautiful
Voice; Tangled Lives; The Transcendent Child; and Intimate Strangers.
C. Matthew Snipp is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of
Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University
where he founded the Center for Native American Excellence. He is the author
of American Indians: The First of This Land; and Public Policy Impacts on American
Indian Economic Development. His tribal heritage is Oklahoma Cherokee and
Choctaw.
Natalie J. Sokoloff is professor emerita of sociology at the John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, SUNY. She is author of numerous books and publications about
intimate partner violence, and women and men’s incarceration. She is the editor of
Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture.
Timothy J. Steigenga is professor of political science and chair of the social
sciences and humanities at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic Uni-
versity. He is the author of numerous books and publications, including A Place
to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida’s New Destinations.
Jesse A. Steinfeldt is associate professor in the Department of Counseling and
Educational Psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Matthew Clint Steinfeldt is a lecturer in exercise science at Fort Lewis College
in Durango, Colorado.
Ronald T. Takaki was professor of ethnic studies at the University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley, and distinguished historian whose scholarship provided much of
the foundation for inclusive historical studies. He authored several books, includ-
ing Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th Century America; Strangers from a Different
Shore: A History of Asian Americans; and A Different Mirror: A History of Multicul-
tural America.
Beverly Tatum is president of Spelman College. She is a clinical psychologist,
author, and teacher whose areas of research interest include Black families in

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White communities, racial identity in teens, and the role of race in the class-
room. She is the author of Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in
an Era of School Resegregation, and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the
Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race.
Bhoomi K. Thakore is a research associate at Northwestern University. She is
the author of numerous papers on racial representations in the popular media.
Ann Tickamyer is professor and head of the Department of Agricultural Eco-
nomics, Sociology, and Education at Pennsylvania State University. Her work
focuses on poverty, livelihood practices, and welfare provision in rural Appala-
chia and Indonesia.
Jeremiah Torres is a graduate of Stanford University, where he studied symbolic
systems. His article “Label Us Angry” appeared in the book Asian American X,
a collection of essays about the experiences of contemporary Asian Americans.
Haunani-Kay Trask is a Hawaiian scholar and poet and has been an indigenous
rights activist for the Native Hawaiian community for over 25 years. She is a
former professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and
is the author of several books of poetry and nonfiction.
Deborah R. Vargas is associate professor of ethnic studies and director of grad-
uate studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of California,
Riverside. She is author of Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La
Onda.
Manuel A. Vásquez is professor and chair of University of Florida’s Religion
Department. He has authored numerous books, including More than Belief: A
Materialist Theory of Religion. He is a co-author of Living “Illegal”: The Human
Face of Unauthorized Immigration (2nd edition, 2013).
Matt Vidal is senior lecturer in work and organizations at King’s College,
London. His areas of expertise include the sociology of work, organizations,
labor markets, and comparative political economy.
Mary C. Waters is M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology and Harvard Col-
lege Professor at Harvard University. She is the author of Black Identities: West
Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities; Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities
in America; and numerous articles on race, ethnicity, and immigration.
Sandra E. Weissinger is assistant professor of sociology at the Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville. Her work focuses on intragroup marginalization, inequal-
ities, community activism, and African American communities and institutions.
Kath Weston is a sociological anthropologist who has written several books,
including Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, and Kinship; Render Me, Gender
Me; Long Slow Burn; and Gender in Real Times.
Christine L. Williams is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at
Austin. Her research interests include gender and sexuality; work, occupations,

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and organizations; qualitative methodology; and sociological theory. She is the

author of Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality; Still a Man’s
World: Men Who Do Women’s Work; and Gender Differences at Work: Women and
Men in Nontraditional Occupations.
Dana M. Williams is assistant professor of sociology at Valdosta State Univer-
sity. His work focuses on social inequalities, social movements, political sociol-
ogy, and complex organizations.
Philip J. Williams is professor of political science and Latin American studies at
University of Florida where he is director of the Center for Latin American
Studies. He is the author of The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and
Costa Rica and Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador’s Transition to
Democracy.
Adia M. Harvey Wingfield is an associate professor of sociology at Georgia
State University, specializing in race, class, and gender, work and occupations,
and social theory. She is the author of Yes We Can? White Racial Framing and
the 2008 Presidential Campaign (with Joe Feagin) and Doing Business with Beauty:
Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy.
Jennifer Wriggins is Sumner T. Bernstein Professor of Law at University of
Maine School of Law. She specializes in torts, insurance, and family law with a
focus on race and gender. She is co-author of The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender,
and Tort Law.
Ruth Enid Zambrana is professor of women’s studies and director of the Con-
sortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, College
Park. She is the author of Latinos in American Society: Families and Communities in
Transition and the co-editor of Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in
Theory, Policy, and Practice.
Min Zhou is professor of sociology and Asian American studies, Walter and
Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in U.S.–China Relations and Communications,
and the founding chair of the Asian American Studies Department at UCLA.
She is the author of Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave;
The Transformation of Chinese America; and Contemporary Chinese America: Immigra-
tion, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation.

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