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Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Lawrence Grossberg is Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina. Gilroy was born in the East End of London. He is the author of There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack (1987), Small Acts (1993), Between Camps (2000), and After Empire (2004), Black Britain [with Stuart Hall] and Darker than Blue. He was also co-author of The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 1970s Britain (1982). He is the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College London, and was the 2019 winner of the Holberg Prize. Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Precarious Life, The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality. Michèle Barrett is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author, among other works, of Women's Oppression Today, The Anti-Social Family, and Politics of Diversity (co-authored with Roberta Hamilton).