*Blain, Keisha N.: -Keisha N. Blainis professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University. She is a Guggenheim, Carnegie, and New America Fellow, and author--most recently of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Until I Am Free *. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

*Blain, Keisha N.: -Keisha N. Blainis professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University. She is a Guggenheim, Carnegie, and New America Fellow, and author--most recently of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Until I Am Free *. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.