Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Baha'is in North America, 1898-2000
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewisis a professor of English at Miami  University in Oxford, Ohio. She is the author of numerous scholarly works,  includingMy Soul Is My Own: Oral Narratives of African American Women  in the Professions, andUnrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's  Personal Narratives. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Research  Fellowship at the University of Zambia's Institute for African Studies, a  Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation  Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.Richard W. Thomasis a professor of history at Michigan State  University. He is the author and coauthor of several books, includingDetroit: Race and Uneven Development;Racial Unity: An Imperative  for Social Progress;Understanding Interracial Unity: A Study of  U.S. Race Relations; andLife For Us Is What We Make It: Building  the Black Community in Detroit, 1915-1945, which was awarded the Wesley  Logan Prize in African Diaspora History in 1994 by the American Historical  Association and the Association of Afro-American Life and History.