Donald M. ShafferDonald M. Shaffer is director of the African American Studies Program as well as mentor to Presidential Scholars and associate professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is coeditor of The Construction of Whiteness: An Interdiciplinary Analysis of Race Formation and the Meaning of a White Identity, published by University Press of Mississippi, and his work has appeared in The Southern Literary Journal and The Western Journal of Black Studies. Read More Read Less