Psyche Williams-Forson

Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson, chair of American Studies at the University of Maryland, has done the essential work of refusing the caricature. Her Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs turned one of the most abused racial stereotypes into a careful study of Black women's economic, cultural, and culinary power.

Her more recent Eating While Black is a continuing clinic in how Black food lives under surveillance and how it resists it.