Pedro Pérez Sarduy is a Cuban poet, writer, and journalist who has worked for Cuban and British media. He is coeditor of AFROCUBA: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture. Jean Stubbs is a British historian and codirector of the Commodities of Empire British Academy Research Project based at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is coeditor of AFROCUBA: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture.