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>> ix Acknowledgments I am so grateful to the many people who, though they were lucky enough to have lives very different from those of the people whose experiences I chronicle here, nevertheless supported this book. Some of the first to hear about the project provided critical support , from beginning to end. Early funding for the research project that became this book came from Indiana University’s Faculty Research Support Program. The O’Byrne Fund at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law supported the hiring of research assistants and the writing of the book over multiple summers. In this regard, one of the project’s biggest supporters was my dean, Lauren Robel, who has continuously supported the project from its very beginning. Earlier versions of the project were presented at the American Bar Foundation, where I spent a year as a fellow. I’m grateful to several colleagues who provided guidance while I was doing research in Chicago. The book was also presented at the Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods workshop in Irvine, California, and I’m indebted to workshop participants who offered important comments. I have presented this work at many annual meetings of the Law and Society Association and was gratified by feedback offered by meeting participants. Part of this book was written while I was a fellow at the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University. At Princeton, my life (and consequently my writing and research) was made far easier by Kim Lane Scheppele, Leslie Gerwin, Jennifer Bolton, and Judi Rivkin. Over the year, I discussed the project with many Princeton colleagues and want to especially thank Paul Frymer, Dirk Hartog, Stanley Katz, Kevin Kruse, Imani Perry, Ralf Michaels, and Eli Salzberger. I’m especially beholden to those who provided important work “behind the scenes.” Indiana University Maurer School of Law librarians retrieved countless volumes from far-flung libraries for me. Many x << Acknowledgments Indiana University law students—and one criminal justice graduate student (Cindy Stewart)—worked on the project. I am particularly indebted to one Indiana University undergraduate, Brittany Francis, who spent four years working as my research assistant and contributed to the book immeasurably. Thanks as well to Keisha Blain, a history graduate student at Princeton, who tirelessly combed through archival materials. Rita Eads, at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, transcribed interviews, read seemingly endless drafts, and provided moral support whenever it was needed. A number of Indiana University colleagues attended conferences and colloquia where I presented parts of the book, read drafts, and offered valuable feedback. In this regard, I’m especially thankful to Aviva Orenstein , Florence Roisman, Gene Shreve, Susan Williams, Ajay Mehrotra, Kevin Brown, Jody Madeira, and Seth Lahn. Special thanks go to my former colleague in the Indiana University History Department, Khalil Muhammad, who provided important advice about Chicago. Sometimes one’s help comes from the most unlikely places. In that regard, I cannot thank Leonard Rubinowitz enough. He has generously provided the best of advice and assistance on the project at every stage. I would also like to thank George Lovell, who read countless drafts and offered critical advice, often on short notice. I am very much in the debt of the anonymous respondents who talked with me at great length about their lives living in and integrating neighborhoods. Very sincere and deep thanks go to my editor at New York University Press, Deborah Gershenowitz, who expressed interest in the project from an early stage and whose substantive feedback contributed tremendously to the final project. Rosalie Morales Kearns at the press was an absolutely stellar copyeditor. I want to express my deepest gratitude to my parents, John and Jeanette Bell, who sacrificed so that, as children, my sister Jerilyn and I always had the best that white neighborhoods could offer. This changed my life and I am forever in their debt. Finally, this book is dedicated to my precious daughter, Ella Serena, who makes it all worthwhile. ...

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