Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas

Acknowledgments

vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This volume would not be possible without the generous support of the Francis Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning and the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University, for their grants in support of the Asian displacements and diasporas project and subsequent editing of the papers. In particular we are grateful to Professor Anne Fausto-Sterling, Senior Fellow of the Wayland Collegium, and Professor Abbot Gleason of the Watson Institute for their encouragement and support. We would like to acknowledge the logistical assistance of Walter Harper, Aporn Ukrit, Karen Inouye, and Jim Gatewood at different points along the way. Paul White assisted in the copyediting of the final version of the manuscript. Professor William Simmons, Matthew Guterl, and our colleagues at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America provided constructive comments for the first introductory chapter. And finally we would like to thank Melanie Halkias, editor at Rutgers University Press, and Professor Lane R. Hirabayashi for his careful reading and most thoughtful critique of the volume. ...