Introduction to special issue on psychoanalysis, African Americans and inequality

About the AuthorsAnnie Stopford is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Director of Research and Development for BlueSpark Collaborative, a film and research company based in Boston, Massachussetts. She is an adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, and a Fellow at the Psychology and the Other Institute, Boston College. Her writing has been published in the fields of psychoanalysis, critical psychology, trauma studies and African studies.Sheldon George is Associate Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. He directs the Graduate English Program and teaches courses in theory and American literature. His book Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African-American Identity is forthcoming from Baylor University Press.