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Acknowledgments a ll thought is social. my thinking on the definition and measurement of discrimination effects and my efforts to estimate those effects follow from numerous conversations and correspondences . The opportunity i have been provided to engage such issues is the result of a vast social network that delivered aid in multiple forms, including technical assistance, library materials, supplementary data, computing time, data documentation, disk space, software assistance, and other essential resources. and of course, i have been blessed with several willing informal conversation partners who helped me explore the issues embedded in my research. Given this truth, though i wish to do so, it would be impossible to express my appreciation here to all those involved in my efforts to complete this project. Further increasing the challenge is that this work is intimately connected to an earlier volume. Clearly, as this analysis could not have been conducted without benefit of the earlier volume, my debt of gratitude for aid with this book extends to all those i noted in the earlier one. With appreciation to all who fall into that category, to keep this section manageable, i for the most part highlight only those whose contribution to the project has yet to be acknowledged. This work, like Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice, began as a dissertation. i was blessed with a magnificent dissertation committee, and the signature of their wisdom is evident throughout. during and after the dissertation process they have advised and inspired my efforts. my advisor, Bob hauser, provided supportive xvi / Acknowledgments criticism, serious questioning, and clarifying comments, always with the greater aims of the project and my development as the supreme motivation. adam Gamoran provided a wealth of support and counsel and helped me tremendously in paring away the countless meandering and therefore distracting digressions—although my penchant for same sometimes cannot be fully contained. rob mare called on me to take seriously any given model or position i specified. lauren edelman pointed me toward legal literature i might not otherwise have found, encouraging me to make myself aware of the legal perspective on the issues i addressed and the positions i adopted. Charles halaby encouraged me to refine my epistemological argument at many points and in many ways. and Glen Cain was always on my mind, the embodiment of a sister discipline from which i have often learned. even now, when i think of this set of persons, i can think of no more supportive a dissertation committee; i have been blessed to have had the opportunity to study with such true scholars. as i have elsewhere noted, the Wisconsin model of intellectual Work is such that many members of the community may be involved in the development of any given project. Thus, in addition to my committee, i profited from the attention of many faculty, staff, and students. Franklin Wilson and Gerry marwell have continued to aid my progress, providing further motivation for completion of this project and more. my ongoing dialogue with aimée dechter and ross matsueda continues to teach me much about principles of comparison and argumentation. after leaving madison i continued to receive generous, essential aid. at crucial moments i received support from hosts and conversation partners while on sabbatical at harvard (2001–2002), while at the Czech academy of sciences (spring 2007), and while serving as the Julius and rosa sachs distinguished lecturer at Teachers College for the 2010–2011 academic year. at harvard i struggled to estimate the models reported here; while doing so i benefited greatly from the counsel of Barbara reskin and have continued to draw insight from her words and example. after leaving prague, i shared (and continue to share) many helpful discussions with michaela appeltova and michael smith. and i have continued to benefit from conversation with emily Bauman. Throughout, and always keeping me on my critical and philosophical toes, Wai Kit Choi extended and continues to extend himself in numerous, supportive ways, without which my efforts would have foundered long ago. The social science research Council also provided important dialogical assistance. The wide-ranging exploration of discrimination in which melissa a. adler, rengin B. Firat, rachel elizabeth Fish, Trevor hoppe, Katrina nancy Jirik, angela Ju, anna Koch, anna l. Kromelukens , aniuska luna, michael s. north, stephanie d. reichelderfer, and shomon shamsuddin engaged in during the spring, summer, and autumn of 2010 as part of the social science research Council dissertation proposal development Fellowship program on discrimination studies was a powerful...

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