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Judith A. CARNEY is Professor of Geography at the University of California Los Angeles. She is the author of Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in Americas, which received the Melville Herskovits Book Award, and In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World, which was awarded the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.