 | Rhodessa Jones
Cultural Odyssey
A co-artistic director of the San Francisco acclaimed performance company Cultural Odyssey, Jones is an actress, teacher, singer, and writer. She is founder and director of the award winning Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, a performance workshop designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women. In 2004, Jones was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from California College of the Arts. |
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 | Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Romance Languages & Literatures, Latina/o Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
An Assistant Professor in the American Culture Program at the University of Michigan, La Fountain-Stokes is the author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (Forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press). He serves on the board of directors of the CUNY Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies and on the Modern Language Association’s Committee on the Literatures of People of Color of the United States and Canada.
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 | Mark Anthony Neal
African & African American Studies, Institute for Critical U.S. Studies, Duke University
The author of Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002); Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003); and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2004), Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies and Director of the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies at Duke University.
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 | Frances Aparicio
Latin American & Latino Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
Specializing in U.S. Latina/o Literatures & Cultures, Cultural Studies in Latino & Latin America, popular music, language & cultural identity, and literary translation, Aparicio’s books include Listening to Salsa (1998) and the co-edited Tropicalizations (1997), Musical Migrations (2003) and Hibridismos Culturales (2005). She is Professor of Latin American & Latino Studies at University of Illinois, Chicago.
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