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Amy Alexander is the media columnist for Africana.com and editor of The Farrakhan Factor (1997). She is the author (with Alvin F. Poussaint) of Lay My Burden Down: Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans (2000). Claudia M. Milian Arias has taught Africana Studies and American Civilization at Brown University. She is completing a book on double consciousness and border theory and a work of creative non-fiction. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor of Africology, Temple University, and founder of the first PhD program in African-American Studies. His 60 books include The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism (2000), The Afrocentric Idea (1998), Customs and Culture of Egypt (2002), and Erasing Racism: The Social Survival of the American Nation (2003). Paul Austerlitz taught ethnomusicology at Brown University. He is the author of Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity (1997) and the forthcoming Jazz, the Black Atlantic, and the Human Race . His CD, A Bass Clarinet in Santo Domingo and Detroit , is available on the XDOT25 label. Houston A. Baker, Jr. is the Susan Fox and George D. Beischer Professor of English at Duke University. He is the author of numerous books and essays devoted to Afro-American Literary and Cultural Studies. Currently, he serves as editor of American Literature , founded at Duke University in 1929. Herman Beavers ... log in or subscribe to read full text