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Charles Val Carnegie is professor of anthropology at Bates College where he also chairs the program in African American Studies. His recent publications include: Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (2002), and the essay “Models and Enactments of Transformation,” World Order 35 no. 4 (2004); and “Marley,” in The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-First Century (2005).

Charles Val Carnegie is professor of anthropology at Bates College where he also chairs the program in African American Studies. His recent publications include: Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (2002), and the essay “Models and Enactments of Transformation,” World Order 35 no. 4 (2004); and “Marley,” in The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-First Century (2005).

Jorge Giovannetti is the author of Sonidos de condena: Sociabilidad, historia y política en la música reggae de Jamaica (2001), and coeditor a of a special issue of the journal Caribbean Studies devoted to Garveyism in the Hispanic Caribbean (2003). His contributions have appeared in various journals; in the Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture; and in the books Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America(2003) and Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context (2005). He teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Puerto Rico, where he is also affiliated with the Institute of Caribbean Studies.

Shona Jackson is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is the founder and coeditor of the book series in Caribbean Studies at Lexington Books and is a member of the editorial board of Wadabagei. Her publications include “The Contemporary Crisis in Guyanese National Identification” in Ethnicity, Class and Nationalism: Caribbean and Extra Caribbean Dimensions (2005), and “The Recalcitrant Muse: Race, Sex, and Historical Tension in the Search for the Transcendent Creole Subject” in Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism (forthcoming 2005).

Velma Pollard is retired senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Her major research interests have been Creole languages of the Anglophone Caribbean, the language of Caribbean literature, and Caribbean women's writing. She has published poems and stories in regional and international journals and anthologies, and her novella, Karl, won the Casa l de las Americas prize in 1992.

Samuel Furé Davis taught Spanish language and translation at the University of Ghana before accepting his current position as assistant professor of English language and Anglo-Caribbean Literature in the School of Foreign Languages, University of Havana. He is currently completing a dissertation titled “Rastafari: a (sub-) cultural alternative tendency.”

Hilda Lloréns holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Connecticut and has taught at Middlebury College. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Ingrid Reneau completed her PhD in Literatures in English at Rutgers University. Her publications include “Maimouna's Praisesongs: Modeling Nationhood in Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood,” Obsidian III 5, no. 2 (2004), and “Dancing the Clearing in Academia Struggle,” Western Journal of Black Studies 27, no. 4 (2003). She is currently completing a book manuscript titled “Dancing the ‘Clearing’ in African Diaspora Narratives.”

Scherezade Garcia was born in the Dominican Republic. She graduated from Altos de Chavon / Th e School of Design in La Romana, Dominican Republic, and Parsons School of Design, New York. Her work has been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, Jersey City Museum, Newark Museum, Queens Museum, Lehman College Art Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art (Santo Domingo), as well as in other galleries and institutions. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Charles Val Carnegie is professor of anthropology at Bates College where he also chairs the program in African American Studies. His recent publications include: Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (2002), and the essay “Models and Enactments of Transformation,” World Order 35 no. 4 (2004); and “Marley,” in The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-First Century (2005).

Silvio Torres-Saillant is associate professor of English and director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Program at Syracuse University. He is the 2005–2006 Wilbur Marvin Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. His published work includes Caribbean Poetics (1997), The Dominican Americans(with Ramona Hernandez, 1998), El Retorno de las Yolas (1999), and An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (2005). He is associate editor of the journal Latino Studies and senior editor for the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.

Timothy Chin teaches courses in African American, Caribbean, and American literature at California State University, Dominguez Hills. His research interests include diasporic and transnational approaches and questions of gender and sexuality in African American and Caribbean literature. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Small Axe, and Amerasia Journal. He is currently working on a project that investigates the involvement of Chinese Jamaicans in the reggae industry.

Eleni Coundouriotis is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she also serves as associate director of the Human Rights Institute. She is the author of Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography, and the Novel (1999) and numerous articles in postcolonial studies. She is currently at work on a book to be titled “The Ethnographic Nation.”

Marc Brudzinski is assistant professor in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Miami. He is currently working on a book devoted to the study of the “island” and the “secret” as metaphors for cultural control in the Caribbean.

Shalini Puri is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is editor of Marginal Migrations: Th e Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (2003), and author of The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity (2004), which was awarded the Gordon and Sybil Lewis Prize by the Caribbean Studies Association in 2005. Her articles have appeared in various journals and anthologies including Cultural Critique, ARIEL, Small Axe, and the Journal of Latin American Anthropology.