Jun Xing is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University. He is the author/editor of five other books, including: Baptized in the Fire of Revolution (1996), Asian America through the Lens (1998), Reversing the Lens (2003), and Teaching for Change (2006). Erlinda Gonzales-Berry is Professor of Chicano/a and Latino/a at Oregon State University where she has served as chair of the Ethnic Studies Department for ten years. Patti Sakurai is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at Oregon State University and specializes in Asian American Studies. Robert D. Thompson Jr. is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University. Trained as a sociologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Professor Thompson specializes in African American and Comparative Ethnic Studies and African American Political and Social Thought in the Early Twentieth Century. Kurt Peters is Associate Professor of Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies, serves on the Executive Board of the Rural Community Sustainability Project, and is Director of the Native American Collaborative Institute at Oregon State University.