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William Chester Jordan is Professor of History and Director of the Shelby
Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. His most
recent publications include Women and Credit in Pre-Industrtal and Developing
Societies (1993) and The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early fourteenth
Century (1996).
Jonathan Kaufman, a national reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was a cowinner
of a Pulitzer Prize for articles on racism and job discrimination that
appeared in The Boston Globe in 1984. He is the author of Broken Alliance: The
Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America (1988).
Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor of History and Africana Studies at New
York University. He is the author of Hammer and Hoe; Alabama Communists
During the Great Depression (1 990) and Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black
Working Class (1994).
Earl Lewis is Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies at
the University of Michigan. He is the author of In Their Own Interests: Race,
Class, andPow'er in Twentieth Century Norfolk, Virginia (1991)-
Waldo E. Martin, Jr. is Professor of History at the University of California,
Berkeley. He is the author of The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1985).
Deborah Dash Moore is Professor of Religion at Vassar College. She is the
author of To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Dream in Miami and Los
Angeles (1994) and coeditor of the forthcoming Jeivisb Women in America: An
Historical Encyclopedia.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin is a founding member of Ms. magazine. The author
of eight books, her most recent titles include Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being
Female and Jewish in America (1992) and Getting Over Getting Older: An Intimate
Journey (1996).
Gary E. Rubin, formerly the Executive Director of Americans for Peace
Now, is currently the Director of Public Policy at the New York Association for
New Americans. His recent articles include "How Should We Think About
Black Antisemitism?" in Antisemitism in America Today: Outspoken Experts Explode
the Myths (\ 995) edited by Jerome Chanes.
Jack Salzman, former Director of the Center for American Culture Studies
at Columbia University, is Deputy Director for Education, Media, and Public
Programs at The Jewish Museum. He is the editor of Prospects: An Annual of
American Cultural Studies, and, with David Smith and Cornel West, of the five
volume Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (1995).