Joseph Young is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, and the author of Black Novelist as White Racist: The Myth of Black Inferiority in the Novels of Oscar Micheaux. Jana Evans Braziel is an assistant professor in the department of English and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati, and has coedited Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader and other books.

Joseph Young is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, and the author of Black Novelist as White Racist: The Myth of Black Inferiority in the Novels of Oscar Micheaux. Jana Evans Braziel is an assistant professor in the department of English and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati, and has coedited Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader and other books.