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Acknowledgments So many people have helped make this book possible, but my deepest thanks gotomyhusbandMarkandmyboys,KenzoandTakeo.Markforgivingmethe spaceandtimetowrite,andKenzoandTakeoforbeingmyfirstandbestinspiration . Thank you also to my family Melanie Nishime; Valerie, Carl, Paloma, and Kai Larson; and my parents for believing in me, making me laugh, and keeping me in line. AspecialthankstomycolleaguesandwritinggrouppartnersattheUniversity of Washington, Ralina Joseph and Habiba Ibrahim, who have challenged and supportedmeallalongtheway.AttheUW,I’vefoundanintellectualcommunity in my own department and across campus. Rick Bonus, Leah Ceccarelli, David Domke, Michelle Habell-Pallan, Christine Harold, Valerie Manusov, Suhanthie Motha, Tyina Steptoe, and Crispin Thurlow have read my work or listened to my ideas and sharpened my thinking in new and unexpected ways. The Simpson Center for the Humanities folks, including Kathleen Woodward, George Behlmer, AnnieDwyer,BenjaminGardner,GillianHarkins,CeliaLowe,Louisa Mackenzie, Maria Quintana, Christina Sunardi, Anjali Vats, and Patrick Zambianchi , provided a fresh perspective on the book when I needed it most. Beyondmyowncampus,I’vebeenluckytofindbrilliantandgenerousscholars who help me remember why I wanted to write this book in the first place. MaryBeltrán,GregCarter,JenChan,MicheleElam,CamillaFojas,LauraKina, Jane Park, Myra Washington, and Duncan Williams have all responded to and improved parts of this book. I’m forever in debt to Shilpa Davé for her rare x abilitytobothasktheimportantquestionsandrecommendthebesttelevision shows, and to Tasha Oren for always being on hand with a quick wit and an incisive comment. And to Lisa Nakamura who helped me plot my escape and whoknewhowmuchI’dlovetheSadKeanumeme.ThankyoutoPatriciaKimRajal , Anne Goldman, Scott Miller, Charlene Tung, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, Greta Vollmer, Tim Wandling, and Kim Hester-Williams for encouraging me when this was only a fragment of an idea. Far too much of this book’s argument was developed on the I-5. While I don’t miss the traffic, I do miss the long conversations with my fellow carpoolers (and captive audience) Nan Alamilla-Boyd, Steve Estes, and Don Romesberg. I’msogratefultothegraduatestudentsandresearchassistantswhopatiently tracked down everything from congressional records to Baby Phat ads and taught me the newest citation programs. Thank you to Vanessa Au, Michael Barthel,ElizabethCortez,KrisMroczek,TanyaOishi,andJenniferMcClearen. Good editors keep the faith even when yours is wavering. I’ve been lucky to have Kent Ono and Angharad Valdivia as journal editors for articles that appear in altered form in this book. Thank you also to Laura Helper-Ferris for her editing assistance. And Vijay Shah has been a wonderful book editor for a first-time author. I’m grateful for his patience and support of this project. ThereisnoquestioninmymindthatIamonlywritingacknowledgmentsfora completedbookbecauseoftheinstitutionalsupportI’vereceived.TheUniversity ofWashingtonJuniorFacultyDevelopmentAward,theWalterChapinSimpson Center for the Humanities Society for Faculty Research (Society of Scholars), the Royalty Research Fund, the Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center, and the UW DepartmentofCommunicationFacultyResearchFundhaveallgenerouslysupported my writing. Finally, the WIRED (Women Investigating Race, Ethnicity, andDifference)groupattheUW—hasbeenaliferaft,atravelingparty,areality check, and intellectual incubator. Thank you to all the fabulous participants. I’dliketothankKipFulbeckforkindlysharinghisprintsfromtheHapaProjectandallowingmetoincludethemhere .Twochapters of this book are based on previously published work. A version of chapter four appeared as “Aliens: NarratingU.S.GlobalIdentitythroughTransnationalAdoptionandInterracial Marriage in Battlestar Galactica,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 28:5 (2011): 450–65. A version of chapter five was published as “The Matrix Trilogy , Keanu Reeves, and Multiraciality at the End of Time” in Mixed Race in Hollywood Film and Media Culture, edited by Camilla Fojas and Mary Beltrán (New York University Press, 2008), 290–312. Although deviating from the article in both substance and argument, chapters 1 and 3 contain sections from “The Case for Cablinasian: Multiracial Naming from Plessy to Tiger Woods.” Communication Theory 22, no. 1 (2012): 92–111. Acknowledgments ...

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