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My main source of emotional support has been my spouse, Elizabeth H. Pisares. I thank my dissertation committee: Ross M. Stolzenberg, Charles E. Bidwell,Terry Nichols Clark,and Michael Dawson.I thank the following scholars for their support and feedback: John Brehm, Michael T. Heaney, Bryan Caplan, Cathy Cohen, Edward O. Laumann, Andreas Glaeser, James A. Davis, Lisa Lattuca, Joe Galaskiewicz, David Sallach, Tyler Cowen, Walter Grinder, Larry White, Alex Tabarrok, Tom F. Gieryn, Donna Eder, Pamela Walters, Rob Robinson,J.ScottLong,PatriciaMcManus,ClemBrooks,ReginaWerum,Brian Powell, Trica Keaton, Jacob T. Levy, Ben Browser, Pam Jackson, Tim Hallett, Tim Bartley,ElizabethArmstrong,MelissaWilde,LeahVanWeay,Quincy Stewart , Brian Steensland, Ethan Michelson, Ho-fung Hung, Mary Patillo, Donald R. Culverson, Martha Biondi, Catherine Bolzendahl, Mito Akiyoshi, Peter St.Jean,Harris H.Kim,Michael Reinhardt,Elena Obhukova,ZhiyuanYu,Ryon Lancaster,HeatherMacIndoe,AndyAbbott,AldonMorris,andKirbySchroeder. I also thank the scholars who served as anonymous referees and editors for article versions of a few of these chapters and the scholars who anonymously reviewed the entire book manuscript. If there are others I have omitted by mistake , I thank them as well. I thank the following people for their technical assistance in assembling and collecting data: Gurdip Singh, Melissa Kenney-Howe, Dejun Su, Mariana Gatzeva, Melissa Reyes, Nicholas Rowland, Jessica Hernandez-Wideroff,Violet Yebei, Suzanna Crage, Mary Horner, Matthew Schaik, Laura Luckhurst, Larry Stephenson, Minh Doan, Susan Platter, Karen Hughes, and Michelle Lalonde. The following researchers gave advice on the design and implementation of the Survey of Issues in Africana Studies: Jack Martin of the Schuessler Institute for Social Science Research; John Kennedy and Kevin Tharp of the Indiana University Center for Survey Research. The following individuals helped me find and process data: Fay Booker, Ye Luo, Catherine Serico, and Mary Schifferli. Special thanks go to the staff at the various archives I visited, especially Idelle Acknowledgments Niselle andAlan Divack at the Ford Foundation archive;Alan Fisher at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas; Helene Whitson and Cydney Hill at the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University; Douglas Bicknese, Gretchen Lagana, and Patricia Bakunas at the University of Illinois at Chicago archives; Jay Satterfield at the Special Collection of the University of Chicago;Andre Elizee of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library; and Michael Flug of the Vivian Harsh Collection of the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library of the Chicago Public Libraries. Amy VanStee, my copy editor, worked diligently to produce a manuscript with minimal typographical and grammatical errors. Anne R. Gibbons helped prepare this book for the publication process. And of course, the publication of this book would not be possible without the help of Jackie Wehmueller at the Johns Hopkins University Press, who guided the manuscript through the review process. Her colleagues, Henry Y. K. Tom and Trevor Lipscombe, were very encouraging. Their kind words helped me a great deal. I also thank Bill Owens, Nathan Hare, the Sacramento Bee, the San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco State University for permission to reproduce images for this book. The following institutions provided crucial financial support during various stages of this project: the Departments of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Indiana University at Bloomington, the Moody Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Institute for Humane Studies. The journal Social Forces has generously given permission to reprint portions of an article for inclusion in chapter 6. Finally, I thank all the people in the African American studies community who participated in this project as survey respondents, interviewees, or donors of archival materials. In all, this book is based on information provided by almost three hundred people. Without their help, this book would not exist. They deserve the most thanks of all, even though I cannot credit most of them in print. Please accept my most sincere and profound gratitude. xvi Acknowledgments ...

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