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Acknowledgments For permission to reprint materials first published elsewhere, I would like to thank the following journals and presses: American University Law Review, Asian Law Journal, California Law Review, Harvard Latino Law Review, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, New York University Press, La Raza Law Journal, and UCLA Chicano-Latino Law Review. What appears in this book are substantially rewritten forms of what appeared in these earlier publications. I have benefited greatly from feedback that I received when I presented parts of this book at various venues over the past few years. These include, in roughly chronological order, the Law and Identity Workshop at Boalt Hall in Berkeley in October 1994; the 1995 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting; the 1995 Critical Networks Conference at Georgetown and American Universities; the 1995 Asian Pacific American Law Professors Conference at John Marshall College of Law; the Latina/o Law Professor Colloquium held in conjunction with the 1995 Hispanic National Bar Association Meeting; the Faculty Speakers Series at the Washington College of Law at American University; the 1995 AALS Workshop for Law Teachers of Color; Symposium on the Meanings of Merit at Hastings College of Law; the 1996 Western Law Teachers of Color Conference; the 1996 Asian Pacific American Law Professors Conference at UCLA; McGeorge School of Law; the Literature Department Faculty Colloquium Series at the University of California, San Diego; the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego; the Legal Theory Workshop at Santa Clara University School of Law; the Center for the Study of Race at the University of Florida College of Law; and the 1998 Southern California Asian American Studies Conference at the University of California , Irvine. I am especially indebted to Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic for their unwavering support and for their careful attention to my text. Special thanks go to Maggie Chon, Adrienne Davis, and Todd Hughes, who ix listened with great patience as I read paragraphs and pages over the phone. I would also like to thank Keith Aoki, Jerome Culp, Ibrahim Gassama, Neil Gotanda, Angela Harris, Sharon Hom, Lisa Ikemoto, Jerry Kang, Peter Kwan, Cynthia Lee, Jayne Lee, Nancy Levit, Juan Perea, Sherene Razack, Frank Valdes, and Leti Volpp for their help in developing these ideas. For excellent research assistance, I would like to thank Melinda Aiello, Chuck Coleman, Alice Hsu, Arleen Delos Santos, Roberto Hong, Lee Smith, and Tuyet Tran. My gratitude also extends to my former school, California Western School of Law, where the bulk of this book was written. I would especially like to thank Sandy Murray who, as head of faculty support, made sure that things got done. I have also had the pleasure of working with the editors of various journals and would like to thank them for their help. x | Acknowledgments ...

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