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Leigh Raiford is associate professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also serves as affiliate faculty in the Program in American Studies, and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. Raiford is author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (UNC Press, 2011) and co-editor of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (U of Georgia Press, 2006).

Heike Raphael-Hernandez is professor of English at the University of Maryland University College, Europe and guest professor of American cultural studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany.Raphael-Hernandez is author of Contemporary African American Women Writers and Ernst Bloch’s Principle of Hope (Edwin Mellen, 2008), editor of Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Routledge, 2004) and co-editor of AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics (NYU Press, 2006).