Karina Biondi, author of Junto e Misturdado: uma etnografía do PCC, holds a doctorate in social anthropology from the Federal University of São Carlos in São Paulo.

Editor and translator John F. Collins is associate professor of anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy.