Rick Halpern is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of American Studies and a Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of
Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses (1997), and co-editor of
Racializing Class, Classifying Race: Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa (2000), and
The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History (2002).
Enrico Dal Lago is Lecturer in American History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the co-editor of The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History (2002), and author of the forthcoming Southern Elites: American Planters and Southern Italian Noblemen, 1815–1865.
