Darlene Clark Hine is John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is co-editor of More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, co- author of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America, and author of Hine Sight: Black Women and the Reconstruction of American History.
Earnestine Jenkins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. She has published articles that have appeared in numerous books and journals, including Milestones in Black American History, and Aspects of Ethiopian Art.
Iris Berger is Professor of History, Africana studies, and women's studies
at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is also
past director of the Institute for Research on women and recently
completed a term as president of the African Studies Association. She is
author of Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry,
1900-1980 and Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in the
Precolonial Period, and co-editor of Women and Class in Africa.
E. Frances White is Professor and Dean of the Gallatin School of
Individualized Study at New York University. She writes on African women's
history and feminist theory. Her publications include Sierra Leone's
Settler Women Traders: Women on the Afro-European Frontier and Africa on
My Mind: Gender, Counter Discourse and African American Nationalism.
Yuichiro Onishi is Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Matthew J. Smith is associate professor of English at Azusa Pacific University.
