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Acknowledgments The research for this book was made possible in part by four grants, three from the University of Richmond (faculty research grants in 1998 and 2006 and an enhanced sabbatical grant in 2006–2007) and one from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York, the Heller-Bernard Fellowship, awarded in 2006. I am extremely grateful for this financial support. I am also extremely grateful for the collegial generosity of Dr. Todd May, Lemon Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, and Dr. Ellen T. Armour, Carpenter Professor of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt University. Both read entire drafts and some redrafts of this manuscript at various stages of development and offered extensive and invaluable criticism. Without their help and friendship over the years, this would have been a very different and much inferior piece of work, and I would be a much inferior philosopher. Dr. Eduardo Mendieta, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, supplied me with many important references and copies of papers at crucial junctures, read and critiqued the entire manuscript near the final stage of writing, and offered much-needed (and much-appreciated) encouragement, as well as good advice. Dr. Davonya Havis, Associate Professor of Philosophy (then at Virginia Union University, now at Canisius College) read several chapters of the work in progress and engaged me in wide-ranging philosophical conversation over many lunches and cups of coffee throughout my sabbatical year, thus helping me stay sane and relatively focused in the midst of what has been at times an almost overwhelming project. Both have my deepest gratitude. I would also like to thank my editors at Indiana University Press, Dee Mortensen and Laura MacLeod, without whom this book could not exist, and an anonymous reviewer for the press, who offered extensive and helpful criticism as well as encouragement and enthusiasm for this project. Finally, I would like to thank Carol Anderson, who as my line dance teacher was merely footnoted in Bodies and Pleasures but now, as my life partner, deserves to be featured here prominently. Carol viii Acknowledgments patiently read (or in some cases patiently listened to me read aloud) every draft of every chapter of this manuscript; offered advice and suggestions for intelligibility, clarity, and tone; and never doubted that this at times strange and unwieldy book would get finished and make sense, even on days when I very much did. More than anyone, she has shared with me the pain and joy of this work over the past eight years. Words can’t express how grateful to her I am for that. [18.207.104.87] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 06:49 GMT) Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America ...