Barbara Tomlinson is a Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.¿ She is also the author of Undermining Intersectionality: The Perils of Powerblind Feminism and Feminism and Affect: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist (both Temple) and Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor. She received the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Santa Barbara. ¿

George Lipsitz is a Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous books include The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, How Racism Takes Place and A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition (all Temple). Lipsitz serves as Chair of the boards of Directors of the African American Policy Forum and of the Woodstock Institute and is senior editor of the comparative and relational ethnic studies journal KALFOU.