Joseph L. Graves Jr. is professor in the Department of Biology at North Carolina A&T State University. He is a fellow of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His books include
The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium (2001) and
The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America (2005).
Alan H. Goodman is professor of biological anthropology at Hampshire College and a former vice president for academic affairs. He is a past president of the American Anthropological Association and codirects its public education project on race. He is a coauthor of
Race: Are We So Different? (second edition, 2019), among other books.