About the Author

Trystan T. Cotton is assistant professor of African American studies at California State University, Stanislaus. With Christa Davis Acampora, Cotton edited Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings and (Un)Making Race, Re-making Soul: Transforming Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom.|Kimberly Springer is senior lecturer in American studies at King's College London. She is the author of Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 and editor of Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women's Activism.