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About the Authors
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Gaston Alonso is Associate Professor
in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City
University of New York. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from
the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie in
understanding the incorporation of contemporary immigrants in the US in
light of the experiences of past immigrants as well as exploring how
changing understandings of race, ethnicity, and national belonging have
shaped the models that social scientists have used to understand those
experiences. He is co-editor of People,
Power
and Politics, 10th Edition (2002). Noel S. Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College of City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Education Policy from New York University. His scholarly research focuses on urban politics and education, education policy and comparative issues in education policy (South Africa/US). He is co-editor of Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Activism (2009). Celina Su is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She received a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from MIT. Her research interests lie in civil society and the cultural politics of education and health policy. She is the author of Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (2009). Jeanne Theoharis is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Endowed Chair in Women's Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan. She is the co-author of Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform (2006) with Alejandra Marchevsky; co-editor with Komozi Woodard of Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside of the South, 1940-1980 (2003) and Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America (2005); and the co-author of These Yet to Be United States: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in American Since 1945 (2002) with Athan Theoharis. |
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