Niambi M. Carter is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and specializes in racial/ethnic politics, Black public opinion, and immigration, as well as race and sexuality. Her dissertation, “The Black/White Paradigm Revisited: African Americans, Immigration, Race, and Nation,” is a case study that explores the contours of Black attitudes toward Latino immigration. Her work has received several awards from political science associations, including the APSA 2006 Best Paper Award in Race and Ethnic Politics for “Super Natural: Reclaiming Black Female Sexuality in Pornography.” Carter has been a Ford Foundation Fellow, Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for African American Politics at the University of Rochester, and a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow at Denison University.

Camille Zubrinsky Charles is Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, and Faculty Associate Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Won't You Be My Neighbor: Race, Class, and Residence in Los Angeles (2006), which examines crosscutting, individual-level factors thought to influence aggregate housing patterns, and coauthor of The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities (2003). She also has two other book projects underway: Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities (coauthored with Douglas S. Massey and colleagues), the second in a series based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen. Race-ing through College: Black Students at Selective Colleges and Universities is a sole-authored project focused on diversity within the Black student population. Her research interests are in the areas of racial inequality, racial attitudes and intergroup relations, racial residential segregation, and minorities in higher education.

Oliver Christ is Lecturer of Social Psychology at Philipps University, Marburg, and an advisor for survey methodology at the University of Bielefeld (both in Germany). He earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from Philipps University, Marburg, in 2005. His research interests lie in the field of intergroup relations, ethnic prejudice, and social identity processes in organizations.

Kendra Davenport Cotton is currently a Ph.D. candidate in political science and Acting Assistant Director for Programs at the Program for Public Life, a division of the Center for the Study of the American South, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. While pursuing her doctoral degree, Cotton has also worked as a research associate with Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago evaluating the Duke Endowment's Program for the Rural Carolinas. She has also worked with various advocacy organizations within North Carolina, including the North Carolina Rural Center, the Center for Teaching Quality, and the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. She holds an M.P.A. from North Carolina State University and a B.A. in public administration from the University of Oklahoma.

Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto is Assistant Professor at Northwestern University in the Department of Political Science, and a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. She received her Ph.D. in political science in 2007 from Duke University. DeFrancesco Soto's work focuses on campaigns and elections underpinned by the intersection of political psychology and race and ethnic politics. Her current research examines how Latino ethnic campaigns influence the preferences of both Latinos and non-Latinos and, in particular, how ethnicity can trump partisanship in electoral choices. She is interested in how cognition and affect shape the processing of political information within a dynamic political environment of changing racial and ethnic demographics. DeFrancesco Soto's ongoing research projects include campaign media effects, Black-Latino intergroup relations, comparative race studies, and attitudes toward immigration as a result of varying frames of issue presentation. DeFrancesco Soto has been a Graduate and Dissertation Fellow with the National Science Foundation.

Jeffrey Grynaviski is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago. His research on party politics, race and politics, and research methods has been published in many journals, including the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Political Analysis.

Gerald Jaynes is Professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of African American Studies at Yale University. Jaynes was Chair of African and African American Studies at Yale from 1990 to 1996, and he is currently Director of Graduate Studies in African American Studies. He has written extensively on questions of immigration and race, has testified before several congressional committees, and is the editor of Immigration and Race: New Challenges for American Democracy (2000). The author of many essays and several books, Jaynes's current research concerns the economic history of African Americans and poverty policy in the United States.

Karen M. Kaufmann is Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA. Her research pertains to the roles that group identities and group interests play with regard to U.S. public opinion and voting behavior. She has published articles on minority empowerment, racial coalition politics, Latino politics, urban elections, and the gender gap. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Polity, the Journal of Politics, and Urban Affairs Review. She is the author of The Urban Voter: Group Conflict and Mayoral Voting Behavior in American Cities (2004). Her forthcoming book, Unconventional Wisdom: Facts and Myths about American Voters (with John R. Petrocik and Daron R. Shaw), will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2008.

J. Alan Kendrick is Director of Minority Recruitment and Retention at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kendrick holds a Ph.D. in government from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. His research interests include comparative race politics and the politics of underrepresented groups.

Claire Jean Kim is Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict (2000), which received the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Award for the best scholarly work on ethnic and cultural pluralism. She has published articles on minority politics, multiculturalism, and the social construction of race. Kim is currently writing a book that examines the intersection of race and species in U.S. political discourse.

Gerald F. Lackey is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests include ethnic politics, immigration, and mental health. His dissertation focuses on depression and the potentially injuring nature of social ties among Hispanic immigrants to the United States.

Jennifer Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She is the author of Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America (2002), and coeditor (with Min Zhou) of Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (2004), which was named the 2006 Outstanding Book Award from the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. She is currently completing a manuscript on the ways in which contemporary immigration, intermarriage, and the multiracial population are changing America's color lines.

Monique L. Lyle is a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Elon University. Her primary research areas are in political psychology, public opinion, and race and ethnicity in American politics. Some of Lyle's current research examines how political institutions and elites shape the psychological development and makeup of American citizens. She holds a B.A. in public administration from Michigan State University.

Paula D. McClain is Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences and directs the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. Her primary research interests are in racial minority group politics, particularly interminority political and social competition. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of Politics, American Political Science Review, and Political Research Quarterly. The fourth edition of her book “Can We All Get Along?” Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, coauthored with Joseph Stewart, Jr., was published in 2005. She is a past president of the Southern Political Science Association (2005), and is currently Chair of Duke University's Academic Council.

Shayla C. Nunnally is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Duke University, and a B.A. in political science from North Carolina Central University. Nunnally, who specializes in African American politics, was an Erskine A. Peters Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in African American politics and race and politics. Her research focuses on Black Americans' social and political trust, intragroup and intergroup perceptions and attitudes, and racial socialization experiences.

Thomas Pettigrew is Research Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A Harvard University Ph.D., he has also taught at the Universities of North Carolina (1956–1957), Harvard (1957–1980), and Amsterdam (1986–1991). He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Netherlands Institute for the Advanced Study of the Social Sciences, and Stanford University's Research Institute for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. Pettigrew has conducted intergroup research in Australia, Europe, South Africa, and North America. He has received the Kurt Lewin Award, twice the Gordon Allport Intergroup Research Award, the Sydney Spivack Award for Race Relations Research, and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.

Otto Santa Ana is Associate Professor of the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA. Santa Ana has two research strands. He is an empirical sociolinguist and a critical discourse analyst. In the latter capacity, he empirically studies how public discourse, and mass media news in particular, reproduces societal dominance. The American Political Science Association recognized his first book, Brown Tide Rising: Metaphoric Representations of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse, as the Best Book of 2002 on Ethnic and Racial Politics. Santa Ana's book in progress, Televisioning Latinos, examines how television news represents Latinos to the viewing public.

Thomas J. Scotto is Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex (United Kingdom). His research is in the areas of American and Canadian public opinion and Structural Equation Modeling in the social sciences. He has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, and PS: Political Science and Politics. Scotto is currently working with Harold Clarke and Allan Kornberg on a book-length manuscript that compares political behavior in Canada and America.

John D. Skrentny is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Social Science Research Council, he is the author of The Minority Rights Revolution (2002) and The Ironies of Affirmative Action (1996), and the editor of Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration and Civil Rights Options for America (2001). Skrentny's publications have also appeared in a variety of academic journals, including American Journal of Sociology, Georgetown Law Journal, Studies in American Political Development, and Theory and Society. He is currently working on a project on civil rights and the meaning of race in the contemporary United States, and another on immigration policy in Europe and Asia.

Carola Suárez-Orozco is Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; and Co-Director of Immigration Studies. She publishes widely in the areas of cultural psychology, immigrant families and youth, the role of the “social mirror” in identity formation, immigrant family separations, the role of mentors in facilitating youth development, and gendered experiences of immigrant youth. She is the coauthor of a number of books, including Children of Immigration; Transformations: Migration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation among Latino Adolescents; The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader; and Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society. In 2006, Suárez-Orozco received an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for her seminal work on the cultural psychology of immigration.

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University. His research is in psychological anthropology, with a focus on the study of immigration. He is the editor of Learning in the Global Era: International Perspectives on Globalization and Education (2007); Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (with Desirée Qin-Hilliard, 2004); Latinos: Remaking America (with Mariela Paez, 2002); and Cultures Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma (with Antonius C. G. M. Robben, 2000). He is also the author of many books and over one hundred scholarly papers. The former Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Culture at Harvard University, Suárez-Orozco, cofounded the Harvard Immigration Projects and was elected Directeur d'Etudes Associé at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has been Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Barcelona; Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven; and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Sandra L. Treviño recently received her B.A. from UCLA in sociology with a double minor in Chicana/o studies and public affairs. Her research interests are immigration policy, political marginalization, and state discourse. As an undergraduate, she participated in the McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program and presented her findings at the 2007 Summer Institute for Latino Public Policy in Washington, D.C. This year, as a Jesse Marvin Unruh Assembly Fellow, she will research policy issues and work in the Capitol offices of California State assembly members.

Milton Vickerman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. His main areas of research are race and immigration. Most recently, he has written about immigration and assimilation for the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law (2007). He has also written extensively on West Indian immigrants in The New Americans (2007), Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race (1999), and other publications. Additionally, he has conducted research on patterns of social mobility among African Americans and is completing a manuscript on the contradictions surrounding their assimilation and that of immigrant Blacks into American society.

Ulrich Wagner is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University, Marburg (Germany). Wagner's research interests include intergroup relations, ethnic prejudice, and intergroup aggression. His publications include contributions to the analyses of survey data on ethnic prejudice and racism. Wagner heads the special graduate school that addresses Group Focused Enmity, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Science Foundation). During the academic year 2003–2004, Wagner was a Senior Fellow at the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

Cara Wong is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow at the Cline Center for Democracy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is currently completing a book for Cambridge University Press on communities and obligations, examining how people's perceptions of community boundaries affect their political judgments. In addition to this project, Wong studies how the contexts in which people live (particularly the racial and ethnic characteristics of their surroundings) affect their political opinions and actions. She is also examining issues of multiculturalism, citizenship, and national identity in the United States and in Europe. Wong has published articles in the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, and Political Psychology.

Min Zhou is Professor of Sociology and the founding Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies (2001–2005) at UCLA. She is Chair of the Asian and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association. Zhou's main areas of research include international migration, ethnic and racial relations, education and the new second generation, Asia and Asian America, and urban sociology. She is the author of Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave (1992), and The Transformation of Chinese America (2006); the coauthor of Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (1998); and the coeditor of Contemporary Asian America (2000, 2007), and Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (with Jennifer Lee, 2004). Zhou is currently writing a book entitled Chinatown and Koreatown and Beyond: How Ethnicity Matters for Immigrant Education, and she is conducting research on the social mobility of second-generation immigrants in Los Angeles.