Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading the Black Body

About

Sandra Jackson is Professor of Womens and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for Black Diaspora at DePaul University Chicago. Her published works include the following co-edited books: Talking Back and Acting Out: Women Negotiating the Media across Cultures (2002); Ive Got a Story to Tell: Identity and Place in the Academy (1999) and Beyond Comfort Zones: Confronting the Politics of Privilege as Educators (1995). She is a founding co-editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge Taylor & Francis). She is currently working on a book of essays on race gender and power in the academy as well as a book on the ways in which black women negotiate a habitable space in the academy.Fassil Demissie is Associate Professor in Public Policy Studies DePaul University Chicago. He is a co-editor and contributor of the book The New Chicago (2006) and editor of Postcolonial Cities (Routledge Taylor & Francis). He is a founding co-editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge Taylor & Francis) and Series Editor of Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora. His work has also appeared in Housing Studies International Journal of African Historical Studies African Identities Social Identities and Urban Studies.Michele Goodwin is the Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is also Professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical Law School. She is the author of Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (2005) and a host of law review articles and book chapters.