Oliver Cromwell Cox (1901-1974), born in Trinidad, received an M.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. He taught at Wiley College, the Tuskegee Institute, Lincoln University, and Wayne State University. Cornel West teaches at the W. E.

B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and is author of many books, including Race Matters (1993) and, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Future of the Race (1996). Adolph Reed teaches at New School University in New York City and is author of The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon (1986) and W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought (1997).