Willie Barnes, Jr. (Author)
WILLIE BARNES JR. holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Central Florida and a masters of divinity from Yale Divinity School. He also serves as a pastor in the nation's oldest Black denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

J. Scott Carter (Author)
J. SCOTT CARTER is professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida. He is coauthor of The Death of Affirmative Action? Racialized Framing and the Fight against Racial Preference in College Admissions and coeditor of Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality. His work focuses on race and politics and has been published in various journals, including Annual Review of Sociology, Social Problems, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Social Science Research, to name a few.