Future of Minority Studies

Series Editors: Satya P. Mohanty, Michael Hames-García, Linda Martín Alcoff, Paula M. L. Moya, and Tobin Siebers

The Future of Minority Studies is a timely series that represents the most innovative work being done in the broad field defined as “minority studies.” Drawing on the intellectual and political vision of the Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Research Project, this book series will publish studies of the lives, experiences, and cultures of “minority” groups – broadly defined to include all those whose access to social and cultural institutions is limited primarily because of their social identities.

For more information about the Future of Minority Studies (FMS) International Research Project, visit  www.fmsproject.cornell.edu

Satya P. Mohanty is Professor of English at Cornell University and Director of the Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute. He is the author of Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics (1997). His research interests include critical theory, the novel, social and cultural identity, ethics and aesthetics, and “comparative Indian literature.”

Michael Hames-García is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice (2004) and the co-editor, with Paula M. L. Moya, of Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (2000). 

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University. She is the author of Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory (1996) and the co-editor of Feminist Epistemologies (1993), Thinking From the Underside of History (2000), and Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality (2002). Her most recent book, Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, is forthcoming from Oxford.

Paula M. L. Moya is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University. She is the author of Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (2002) and the co-editor, with Michael Hames-García, of Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (2000).

Tobin Siebers is V.L. Parrington Collegiate Professor of Literary and Cultural Criticism in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.