About the Author

Ronald Goldstock, Director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force and Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, is one of the nation's leading authorities and theorists on the subject of organized crime. Martin Marcus, First Assistant for Field Operations who oversaw the legal work of the Task Force, has subsequently been appointed a Judge of the New York Court of Claims.Thomas D. Thacher II is the Executive Director of the Construction Industry Project. He has supervised the criminal investigations of the construction industry and the writing of the Report. James B. Jacobs is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University. He was the principal draftsman and consultant coordinator for the Report.

Reviews

"Framed by an audacious pairing of 'presidential bookends' (Thomas Jefferson and Barack Obama), "Representing the Race" forces us to rethink our most basic assumptions about the putative political value of African American literature. Jarrett draws our attention away from the legacy of Black Arts in the 1960s to a richly historicized set of case studies from the colonial era to the present."-Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University, and author of "The Practice of Diaspora"

"In this tour de force, Jarrett offers us a strikingly fresh and powerfully cogent paradigm for African American literary history and historiography more generally. An exemplary model of interdisciplinary inquiry, "Representing the Race" deftly engages fierce historic and contemporary debates about the relationship between literature, culture and politics to bring us to new and nuanced understandings of them all. This latest scholarship of Jarrett's is not only field-defining; it stunningly redefines altogether what we think of as the field of African American Studies." -Michele Elam, author of "The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics"