MATTHEW DESMOND is a Ford Foundation Fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has received grants from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Science Foundation, and American Philosophical Society for his research on urban poverty, race, and housing. His first book, On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters, was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award and won the Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship.

MUSTAFA EMIRBAYER is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Since earning his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1989, he has edited Émile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity and has authored several prominent articles that have appeared in American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society and other leading academic journals. In 2009, the American Sociological Association awarded him the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting.

MUSTAFA EMIRBAYER AND MATTHEW DESMOND also are the authors of The Theory of Racial Domination, a theoretical work that offers a new framework for understanding the structures and dynamics of race and racism. Written for race scholars, The Theory of Racial Domination is a companion volume to Racial Domination, Racial Progress.