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T his book developed over time and has undergone extensive revisions and rewritings. Naturally, I owe a debt of gratitude to those who guided me through this process, especially Michael Kramer at the University of California, Davis, who gave me many helpful suggestions; Linda Morris, who read and commented on the manuscript in both its old and new versions; and Patricia Turner. Also many thanks to Clarence Major, Winfried Schleiner, and Peter Dale at Davis; to Rafia Zafar at Washington University, who also made many useful suggestions, and to Carol Taylor Johnson and Jim Natsis at West Virginia State College who, at various times, encouraged me to keep working on this book. Thank you to the readers of previously published material for helping me to refine my arguments . Thank you to Prasenjit Gupta, Charlotte Wright, and the staff of the University of Iowa Press for their support and to my copyeditor , Jennifer Usher of Mesa Verde Media Services, for many useful suggestions and improvements. Thanks also to librarians everywhere for enabling people like me to find books and materials, and to my students who are, after all, the main reason why I try to become an astute reader of literature, culture, and history. Parts of chapter 1 and 3 have been published previously in somewhat different form, and I thank the publishers for allowing me to use my essays in this book. Chapter 1 includes altered and updated versions of “Between ‘Race’ as Construct and ‘Race’ as Essence: The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man,” which originally appeared in the Southern Literary Journal 28.2 (1996): 32–47, and “Socialism and Ethnic Solidarity: Samuel Ornitz’s Haunch, Paunch and Jowl,” which originally appeared in MELUS 24.3 (1999): 21–38. Chapter 3 contains modified and updated versions of “Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones—Reconciling Individualism and Ethnicity,” which was originally published in African American Review 38.2 (1998): 305–315 and is used here with the permission of African American Review, and of “Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers” in The Acknowledgments Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving Out a Niche (Katherine B. Payant and Toby Rose, eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ©1999, 17–30; reproduced with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT). x : acknowledgments [34.228.7.237] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 13:31 GMT) Growing Up Ethnic ...