Sherrow Pinder is a Professor of Multicutural and Gender Studies at California University at Chico. She holds a PhD from the New School for Social Research in Enw York City. She is the author of two prior books: The Poltiics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Americanization, DeAmericanization and Racialized Ethnic Groups (New York Pelgrace Macmillan, 2010) and From Welfare to Work: How Capitalist States Create a Pool of Unskilled Cheap Labor (A Marxist-Feminist Social Analysis) (Lewiton, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).