Patricia G LespinassePatricia G. Lespinasse is director of undergraduate studies, associate professor of Africana studies and African American and African diaspora literature, and a faculty affiliate in the Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric an in the Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies (LACAS) program at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is associate editor of The New Black Renaissance: The Souls Anthology of Critical African-American Studies. And, she teaches courses in blues and jazz literature, Caribbean literature, Africana studies, race, gender, and American film. Read More Read Less