Bryant Keith Alexander, Ph.D. (1998), is Professor and Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts, Loyola Marymount University. He is author of Performing Black Masculinity (Alta Mira, 2006), and The Performative Sustainability of Race (Peter Lang, 2012).

Mary E. Weems, M.A., Ph.D. (2001), is an Independent Scholar, imagination-intellect theorist, poet and author. Recent books include Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues (Sense, 2015) and Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2013).

Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism provides a variety of performance texts of different lengths, powerful imagery, recognizable situations, discussion questions and a "Racism and AntiRacism Bibliography" for students, faculty and others interested in deconstructing racism and constructing an anti-racist perspective.