## Section I: Chapter 15  
Jafari S. ALLEN, Associate Professor of Anthropology, is jointly appointed with the Department of African American Studies, and works at the intersections of sexuality, gender and blackness in Cuba, the US, and transnationally. A recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council Sexuality Research Program, and Rockefeller Foundation; he teaches courses on the cultural politics of race, sexuality and gender in Black diasporas; Black feminist and queer theory; critical cultural studies; ethnographic methodology and writing; subjectivity, consciousness and resistance; Cuba and the Caribbean.