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Contributors
Earnest N. Bracey is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, with over twenty years
of active military service. He now serves as Nevada’s chairperson for the Na
tional Association of African-American Studies, and currently teaches political
science and Black American History at the Community College of Southern Ne
vada in Las Vegas. He co-authored the book American Politics and Culture Wars
(1997) and is also the author of the novels Chosen (1994) and The Black Samurai
(1998) .
Wheeler Winston Dixon is the Chairperson of the Film Studies Program at the
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the Editor of the Cultural Studies in Cin
ema Video Series from State University of New York Press. He is the author of
more than fifty articles on film theory, history and criticism. His latest book is
The Transparency o f Spectacle: Mediations on the Moving Image (SUNY UP).
Craig Frischkorn is Assistant Professor of English at Jamestown (NY) Commu
nity College, where he teaches writing, literature, and film. His essays have
appeared in American Theatre^ The Explicatory Journal o f Popular Culture, Literature/Film Quarterly, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
Tina M. Harris (Ph.D., University of Kentucky) teaches in the Department of
Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. She is co-editor of a forth
coming textbook titled Interracial Communication: From Theory to Practice (with
Mark Orbe; Wadsworth, 2000). Her research and teaching interests include inter
racial, intercultural, and interpersonal communication, mentoring, racial/ethnic
identity, film, and television. Her most recent publication appears in Women and
Language.
Liza Hansen is Assistant Professor in the UNLV School of Architecture and
Coordinator of the Architecture Program.
Jeffrey Alan Melton is an Associate Professor of English at Auburn University,
Montgomery. He has published articles on American travel literature with a spe
cial interest in Mark Twain. He is the co-founder and President of the Society for
American Travel Writing.