Robert Gooding-Williams is Professor of Political Science and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism (Stanford, 2001) and Look, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics (Routledge, 2005). He is also the editor of Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (Routledge, 1993) and co-editor (w/David Blight) of the Bedford Books edition of The Souls of Black Folk (1997).