Lawrence D. Bobo is founding co-editor of the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. He is also the Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Professor Bobo is co-author of the award-winning Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (1997), senior editor for Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (2000), and author of the forthcoming book, Prejudice in Politics: Public Opinion, Group Position, and Wisconsin Treaty Rights Conflict to be published by Harvard University Press.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. He is the author of White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2001) and Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States (2003) and co-editor with Ashley Doane of White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism (2003). Professor Bonilla-Silva is working on two new books, the first with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Hayward Horton entitled Anything but Racism: How Social Analysts Limit the Significance of Race and the second, White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology, with Tukufu Zuberi.

Prudence L. Carter is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, where she teaches a range of courses on racial and ethnic relations, social and cultural inequality, the sociology of education, and research methods. Her most recent publications have appeared in Social Problems, African American Research Perspectives, and various collected book volumes. Her forthcoming book, “Not in the ‘White’ Way: Achievement, Culture and Identity of Low-Income African American and Latino Students,” will be published by Oxford University Press.

Camille Z. Charles is Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Research Associate in Africana Studies and the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent publications include “The Dynamics of Racial Residential Segregation” in the Annual Review of Sociology and The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities (2003), co-authored with Douglas S. Massey, Garvey Lundy, and Mary Fischer. Forthcoming in 2004–2005 are the following books: Pressure Cooker: The Minority Experience at Elite Colleges and Universities, to be published by Princeton University Press, and Won't You Be My Neighbor? Race, Residence and Intergroup Relations in Los Angeles, to be published by Russell Sage.

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics at Johns Hopkins University. Her publications include “Noncitizens, voice, and identity: The politics of citizenship in Japan's Korean community” (Center for Comparative Immigration Studies Working Paper, June 2003) and “Exercising citizenship: Koreans Living in Japan” (Asian Perspective, 2000). Professor Chung is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, “Diversifying Democracy: Citizenship, Nationality, and the Politics of Immigration in Japan,” based on her research on a Korean community in Japan.

Cathy J. Cohen is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. Professor Cohen is the author of the book The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (1999) and the co-editor with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (1997). She is also editor with Frederick Harris of a new book series from Oxford Press entitled “Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities.”

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommon Professor at Stanford University's School of Education and co-director of the Stanford Education Leadership Institute. She is author or editor of nine books and more than two hundred journal articles and book chapters. In 1997 Professor Darling-Hammond published the award-winning The Right To Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools that Work in 1997. Her forthcoming book called “Preparing Teachers for a Changing World,” co-edited with John Bransford and sponsored by the National Academy of Education, will be published by Jossey-Bass in early 2005.

Michael C. Dawson is founding co-editor of the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. He is also Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. In addition to numerous articles that have appeared in Public Culture, the American Political Science Review, the National Review of Political Science, as well as other publications, Professor Dawson is also the author of Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics (1994) and Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Attitudes (2001).

Cybelle Fox is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology and social policy at Harvard University. Her most recent publications include an introduction, written with Lawrence D. Bobo, to the Social Psychology Quarterly entitled, “Race, racism and discrimination: Bridging problems, methods and theory in social psychological research” (2003). Her forthcoming publications include “The changing color of welfare? How Whites' attitudes toward Latinos influence support for welfare” to appear in the American Journal of Sociology (2004).

Luis Ricardo Fraga is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His most recent publications include the following: with co-authors Ricardo Ramirez and Gary Segura, “Unquestioned influence: Latinos and the 2000 election in California” in Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Robert Y. Shapiro, Eds., Muted Voices: Latinos and the 2000 Elections (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), “Demography and political influence: Disentangling the Latino vote,” Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy (2003–2004), and “Latino political incorporation in California, 1990–2000” (Berkeley Public Policy Press: 2003), both co-authored with Ricardo Ramirez. Among his forthcoming publications is “Racial and Ethnic Politics in a Multicultural Society” (University of Virginia Press, 2004).

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. His most recent publication include America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African American (2004), the companion book to his PBS series of the same title, and African American Lives (2004), which he edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.

Arline T. Geronimus is a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and a Senior Research Scientist at the Population Studies Center, both at the University of Michigan. Her recent publications include “Damned if you do: Culture, identity, privilege and teenage childbearing in the United States,” in Social Science and Medicine (2003), and “Urban Life and Health,” in the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001). She is currently working on a book, “Dying Old at a Very Young Age: The Weathering of African Americans and the Moral Boundaries of Pluralism.”

Ramón A. Gutiérrez is Professor of Ethnic Studies and History at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. He is the author of When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (1991) and of numerous articles. Professor Gutiérrez is currently working on a synthetic history of the Chicano Movement and a book on Indian slavery in the Southwest.

Michael Hanchard is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and director of the Institute for Diaspora Studies. His publications include Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil 1945–1988 (1994), and Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil (1999). His forthcoming book, “Party/Politics: Culture, Intention and Power in Black Thought,” will be published by Oxford University Press.

Vincent L. Hutchings is Associate Professor of Political Science and a research associate at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Professor Hutchings's recent publications include Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn About Politics (2003) and, with Nicholas Valentino and Ismail White, “Cues that matter: How political ads prime racial attitudes during campaigns,” American Political Science Review (2002). His forthcoming article, “Congressional representation of Black interests: Recognizing the importance of stability,” in the Journal of Politics was written with Harwood McClerking and Guy-Uriel Charles.

Devon Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Administration of Justice Program at George Mason University. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a Research Associate in the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Her paper “Justice or ‘Just Us’?: Perceived racial bias in the criminal justice system” (currently under review) has received numerous awards. In 2001 she published “Punitive attitudes on crime: Economic insecurity, racial prejudice, or both?” (Sociological Focus).

David L. Leal is Assistant Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin. His primary research interests are Latino politics and education policy. He has articles published or forthcoming in such periodicals as the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Political Behavior, Social Science Quarterly, Armed Forces & Society, Polity, Policy Studies Journal, Urban Affairs Review, Educational Policy, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences.

Douglas S. Massey is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University in the Office of Population Research. He is co-author of the following books: of International Migration: Prospects and Politics (2004), with J. Edward Taylor; of The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities (2003), with Camille Z. Charles, Garvey Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer; and of Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration (2002), with Jorge Durand and Nolan J. Malone.

Alice O'Connor is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. (2001). Professor O'Connor is co-author with Chris Tilly and Lawrence D. Bobo of Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, (Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2001) and co-editor with Gwendolyn Mink of the forthcoming (2005) Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy.

Yesilernis Peña is a Ph.D. candidate in social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is studying race relations in Latin America and the United States, focusing on people of African and European descent.

Rovana Popoff is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Chicago.

Lynn M. Sanders is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. Professor Sander's current research, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focuses on the influence of political participation on mental health. A book manuscript in progress examines how the methodological assumptions of survey researchers have shaped Americans' understanding of public opinion on race. She is also a contributor to journals including the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Theory, American Journal of Sociology, and to Divided by Color (with Donald Kinder, 1996).

Mark Q. Sawyer is Assistant Professor of Political Science and holds an appointment at the Ralph J. Bunche Institute for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is on leave until 2005 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Sawyer has published articles and reviews in journals including the Journal of Political Psychology, Perspectives on Politics, PALARA, and SOULS. His first book, Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba, is forthcoming at Cambridge University Press.

James Sidanius is Professor of Psychology and a fellow at the Center of Study of Society and Politics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of more than eighty scientific papers in the field of political psychology. In addition, Professor Sidanius is co-editor with David O. Sears and Lawrence D. Bobo of Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America (2000) and co-author with Felicia Pratto of Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression (1999).

Katherine Tate is Professor and Chair of Political Science and Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, Professor Tate's research has focused on the electoral behavior of African Americans as well as the politics of race, women, and minority groups. Her recent publications include Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and their Representatives in the U.S. Congress (2003).

J. Phillip Thompson is Associate Professor of Urban Politics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Thompson's research in progress includes “The End of Liberalism in New York: Homeless Policy in the Dinkins Era,” “Social Capital in Public Housing: Toward a Definition of Empowerment and Self-Sufficiency” (with Susan Saegert), and “The Limits of Black Politics: Politics and Policy in Three Black-run Cities.”

Kimberley C. Torres is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Torres is working on two more projects with Professor Camille Z. Charles to be published in 2004: Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, and a review of John Ogbu's 2003 book, Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement.

Mia Tuan is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? The Asian Ethnic Experience Today (1999). Among Professor Tuan's forthcoming publications are “Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute,” co-authored with Lawrence D. Bobo and “A Sociological Approach to Race, Identity, and Asian Adoption,” co-written with Jiannbin Shiao.

Hanes Walton, Jr. is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His forthcoming book, “Remaking the Democratic Party: Lyndon Baines Johnson as a Native Son Presidential Candidate,” explores and analyzes the manner in which the political context variable impacts and influences the political behavior of the African American community. His large-scale work on commemorative public policies is presently in the data collection stage. This work has been underway since 1983.

Alford A. Young, Jr. is Associate Professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances (2004). He has also served as guest editor for a special edition of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies entitled “Introduction to Extending the Scholarly Tradition of William Julius Wilson: A Symposium” (November 2003) and has published articles on urban poverty, qualitative research methods, and the history of African American contributions to sociology.