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ix Acknowledgments in the long process of gestation of this book—going back to its first conceptualization realized in an essay (“Travelling Multiculturalism: French Intellectuals and the U.S. Culture Wars”) published in Black Renaissance Noire in 2001—we have received the support of many friends, colleagues, and institutions. We would like to thank the following for offering insightful commentary on earlier drafts or sections or on oral presentations of the project: Christopher Dunn, Patrick Erouart, Ismail Xavier, Jim Cohen, Manthia Diawara, Ziad Elmarsafy, Sérgio Costa, James Stam, Anne Donadey, Marcelo Fiorini, Randal Johnson, George Yúdice, Diana Taylor, Neil Smith, Michael Hanchard,Yaël Bitton, Randy Martin, Robert Young, and Rajeswari Sunder. Various readers for NYU Press— notably Arturo Escobar, Minoo Moallem, and Dilip Gaonkar—made useful suggestions . We are also grateful for the indispensible assistance we have received at various stages from Benjamin Minh Ha, Cecilia Sayad, Paulina Suarez-Hesketh, Karen Wang, Sandra Ruiz, Leili Kashani, Karim Tartoussieh, and Leo Goldsmith , and especially from Jennifer Kelly, who has been wonderfully helpful during the diverse stages of the project, including up through the demanding work of indexing. We are also grateful to NYU Press editor in chief Eric Zinner for his support and patience and to managing editor Despina Papazoglou Gimbel and copyeditor Andrew Katz for their meticulous work. The intellectual conversations promoted by various centers at NYU have been an endless source of stimulation and inspiration. Here we would like to cite La Maison Française, the Institute of French Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, the Juan Carlos of Spain Center, the Center for Media, Culture and History, and the Center for Art and Public Policy in Tisch School of the Arts, along with various seminars and discussion groups such as the Postcolonial Studies Seminar and the Comparative Race Studies Group. Our warm appreciation also goes to the following: Evelyn Alsultany, Awam Amkpa, Vincent Carelli, Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho, Moncef Cheikrouhou, Luiz Antonio Coelho, Marc Cohen, Amalia Cordova, Karel Depollo, Ayse Franko, Eti and Selim Franko, Faye Ginsburg, Inderpal Grewal, Maurice Hazan, Caren Kaplan, Kate Lyra, Ivone Margulies, Anne McClintock, Rob Nixon, Yigal Nizri, Marcelle Pithon, Mary Louise Pratt, Yvette Raby, Jolene Ricard, Ilda Santos, Eyal Sivan, Shouleh Vatanabadi, João Luiz Vieira, and Anne Wax. x Acknowledgments We would like to thank the following colleagues and institutions for facilitating the presentation of our work (alone or together): Inderpal Grewal and the “Culture and Theory” Lecture Series at the University of California, Irvine; Caroline Cappucin and L’Institut d’Amérique Latine in Paris; Yasuko Takezawa and the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University, Japan; Patrick Wolfe and the University of Melbourne, Australia; Deane Williams and Monash University, Australia; Manuela Ribeiro Sanchez and the “Europe in Black & White” conference at the Centro de Estudos Comparatistas at the University of Lisbon, Portugal; Arnold H. Itwaru and the University of Toronto; Armida de la Garza and Nottingham University in Ningpo, China; Manuela Boatcă and the “Critical Thought/Transformative Practice Seminar” at the Instituto Universit ário de Pesquisas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Diana Accaria and the “Seminar on Postcolonial Theory” and the Departments of English, History, and Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras; Suvir Kaul and Ania Loomba and the “Postcolonial Studies and Beyond” conference, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Vermonja Alston and York University, Toronto; the Borcher’s Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Timothy Powell, Eve Troute Powell, and the“Multicultural Studies” conference at the University of Georgia; Frederic Viguier and Francine Goldenhar at the Maison Française at New York University; Diana Taylor and NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and its encuentros in Monterrey, Mexico, and Lima, Peru; Edward Said, Joseph Massad, and Gil Anidjar and the Comparative Cultures University Seminar, Columbia University; Dora Baras and the Subversive Film Festival in Zaghreb, Croatia; the“Area Studies in the Era of Globalization ” seminar at the Social Science Research Council, New York; Lucia Nagib and the World Cinema program at Leeds University, England; Leslie Bethell and the Center for Brazilian Studies at Oxford University; Sérgio Costa and the Conference on Brazil at the Free University in Berlin; Armida de la Garza and the Conference on Co-Productions in Puebla, Mexico; Zé Gatti, SOCINE, and the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; Omar Gonzales and ICAIC, Havana, Cuba; Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature (ABRALIC...

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