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re-release of Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens, and for a Duke Ellington
box-set called The Duke.
Dianne M. Pinderhughes was the Director of Afro-American Studies and
Research Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from
1991 until 2000. In fall 2006 she joined the faculty at the University of Notre
Dame where she is Professor in the departments of Political Science, and
Africana Studies. Her articles include: “A Reflection on Mathew Holden at
25: Toward Black Regrouping and the Next Five Years: Morale and Objective
Capacity,” National Political Sciences Review; “Voting Rights Policy and
Redistricting: An Introductory Essay,” Symposium: Race and Representation,
National Political Science Review; and Race and Ethnicity in Chicago
Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory. In 2006 she became the President-Elect
of the American Political Science Association, and is the first
African American woman to hold this position.
Valerie Smith is currently the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and
Director of the Program in African American Studies at Princeton University.
She is the author of Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative;
Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings; and the
editor of African American Writers; Representing Blackness: Issues in Film
and Video; and New Essays on Song of Solomon. In 2002 she co-edited a special
issue of Signs with Marianne Hirsch (2002) and a special issue of Black
American Literature Forum (now African American Review) on black film
(1991) with Camille Billops and Ada Gay Griffin.
Richard Yarborough is currently an Associate Professor of African-American
Literature and Culture and American Literature at University of California,
Los Angeles. He was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award in
1987, and received a commendation from the City of Los Angeles in 1990.
He is the co-editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature;
the Heath Anthology of American Literature, 2nd ed.; the Heath Anthology of
American Literature: Colonial Period to 1800; and the Heath Anthology of
American Literature: Early Nineteenth Century.