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Acknowledgments I am deeply indebted to many colleagues whose guidance contributed to the production of this book. I thank my advisor, Frances Smith Foster, whose advice and advocacy were critical to the birth of this book. I am also grateful to Mary Loeffelholz, whose precise and prompt responses to my work became the lens through which I learned that this project was indeed a book. I would like to thank Wayne Franklin for graciously allowing me to read his biography in progress on James Fenimore Cooper and for calling my attention to Cooper’s The Travelling Bachelor; or, Notions of the Americans. Perhaps one chapter of this book might not have been written had it not been for William L. Andrews, who directed my attention to Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine. My thanks to those who read this manuscript in various stages, including Mark Sanders, Cris Levenduski, Sarah Robbins, Barbara Rodriguez, and the astute readers chosen by Indiana University Press. The encouragement and example of many of my colleagues at Northeastern University, including Guy Rotella, Marina Leslie, Beth Britt, and Laura Green, have been invaluable to this process. I would like to express my gratitude to Elizabeth Shea, whose luminous insights about her own book lit the way for mine. I am also very thankful for the advice and delightful company of the 2002–2003 fellows of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for AfroAmerican Research at Harvard University. Much thanks to Henry Louis Gates Jr. for granting me the opportunity to spend a year immersed in that intellectual playground. I am obliged to Northeastern University’s Provost’s Office and the New England Board of Higher Education for their support of this project. [3.238.162.113] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 07:27 GMT) BARRIERS BETWEEN US ...