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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We met one night in 1996 at an MLA party and stood in the corner for a long time, talking and bonding in our mutual frustration over the formalist and anti-theoretical bent that still seemed to dominate critical work on modernism. (This was before the new vogue in modernisms had come to the fore.) Where did the United States fit into all this? What about cultural studies? And why did American studies and modernist studies still seem at odds? This book found its genesis then and in the long e-mails that followed. Like all anthologies, Modernism , Inc., had a bumpy birth; during its production, we weathered a dissertation defense, the writing of single-authored books, four jobs, and four moves between us. Our debts to others are large. We would most like to thank our contributors , many of whom stuck with us patiently over a number of years. We would also like to thank Michael Bérubé, the editor of the Cultural Fronts series, for believing in the book and supporting its publication; Eric Zinner, who is as smart, supportive, and patient an editor as one could ever hope for; and Despina Papazoglou Gimbel, Cecilia Feilla, and Emily Park at New York University Press. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Columbia University Press for permission to print William Maxwell’s “Kitchen Mechanics and Parlor Nationalists: Andy Razaf, Black Bolshevism and Harlem’s Renaissance,” which appeared in a slightly revised form as Chapter One in New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars (Columbia UP 1999); to the University of Michigan Press for permission to print David Nicholls’ essay, “Jean Toomer’s Cane, Modernization , and the Spectral Folk” a version of which appeared as Chapter Two of Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America (U of Michigan P 2000); and to Johns Hopkins University Press for permission to print Maria Damon’s essay, an earlier version of which appeared as “Gertrude Stein, Jewish Social Scientists and the ‘Jewish Question’” in Modern Fiction Studies 42:3 (1996), 489–506. © Purdue Research Foundation. We are also grateful to Yale University, the Whitney Humanities Center, the University of Minnesota, the McKnight Foundation, and the Merge Research Institute for support; to Cary Nelson, who introduced us and gave us helpful advice during the production of the volume; and to Rebecca Scherr, who secured many of the permissions, found copies of photographs , and generally helped keep things running smoothly during the editing process. Tom Augst, Maria Damon, Paula Rabinowitz, Rita Raley, Susan Rosenbaum , Karen Till, and members of the “Postmodern Modernisms” seminar at the October 2000 Modernist Studies Association conference gave us generous feedback on the writing of the introduction. Bruce Braun, Geoff Eley, Simon Gikandi, Jean Leverich, Marjorie Levinson, Erin O’Connor, Susan Rosenbaum, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Karla Taylor, Patricia Yaeger, and the librarians and curators at the Nevada Historical Society and the University of Nevada-Reno advised on the research and writing of an earlier version of the Reno essay. And, finally, Lisa Stowe-Thurston helped us technologically and psychically throughout a long production process. A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S viii ...