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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.