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vii Acknowledgments THIS BOOK PROJECT began as a graduate seminar paper for a class taught by David Roediger at the University of Minnesota. During the time it has taken to transform the ideas I first presented in that seminar into a dissertation and book, I have received invaluable help from a number of teachers, classmates, colleagues, and archivists. I have been fortunate to have had two fabulous professors guide me through graduate school and the writing process. Judith Smith was, and is, a dedicated mentor whose suggestions are always brilliant and helpful. I feel immensely fortunate to have worked toward my M.A. with Professor Smith at the University of Massachusetts Boston. David Roediger, my dissertation adviser at Minnesota, was generous and inspirational. At Minnesota, my work benefited from helpful suggestions and observations by classmates. Marjorie Bryer, Katherine Griffin, Tiya Miles, and Meredith Wood pushed my thinking on this project in ways they may never fully realize. The University of Minnesota’s Dissertation Fellowship was welcome support during the final year of writing. Archivists at Michigan State University’s Nye Popular Collections Library, at Emory’s Woodruff Library, and at Yale’s Beinicke Library were extremely helpful in guiding me through a huge amount of materials. During the postdissertation phase of this project, I was greatly assisted by graduate students at the University of New Mexico, including Elizabeth Swift, Asako Nobuoka, and Margie Montañez, each of whom provided invaluable research assistance. Various students in my Interracialism in America course at the University of Colorado Boulder and at the University of New Mexico have helped me rethink my own research on the subject. My junior faculty research group at New Mexico—Amanda Cobb, Alyosha Goldstein, and Rebecca Schreiber—read and helped improve chapter 1. Peggy Pascoe and Rachel Moran gave extremely useful suggestions for how to rethink the major argument of my project, and for this I am grateful. viii Acknowledgments Their respective essays and books on interracial intimacy were invaluable in helping me contextualize my own study. John-Michael Rivera gave helpful direction whenever it was needed. The editors at the University Press of Mississippi have been wonderful. Seetha Srinivasan has been an active and responsive editor. The not-soannonymous reader (James Hall) was immensely knowledgeable and helpful . His suggestions and comments made me think about my project in new ways. It is no secret to anyone who has written a dissertation and a book that the work is mostly lonely and involves years of stress with only brief moments of joy. My brother, Charlie Lubin, has always been an inspiration to me, especially during the construction of this project. More than anyone else I know, Charlie suggests the hopeful possibilities of taking risks and crossing all sorts of boundaries. In both the stressful and joyful parts of this process, Kelly Gallagher has been a compassionate partner who made me realize that a book is just that. It is to her, and our newest joy, Eyob, that I dedicate this book, and so much more. ...

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