Comedy: American Style: American Style

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments I wish to express my sincere gratitude to those individuals who made this new edition of Comedy: American Style possible. The editors of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas series at Rutgers University Press, Carla L. Peterson, C. Lok Chua, and Amritjit Singh, offered many productive suggestions. Special thanks go to Amritjit Singh and Leslie Mitchner whose support of this project and diligent reading of the introduction were immeasurably helpful. I also appreciate the technical assistance provided by Alison Hack and Richard Kunst. I wish to thank the Crisis Publishing Co., Inc., the publisher of the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for the use of the Jessie Fauset material included in the“Selected Writings” section of this edition. ix ...