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>> vii Acknowledgments This book has its roots within the American Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. The editors would like to thank the community of students, scholars, and activists there, as well as the many other people who have nourished and guided the project. They include Rich Blint, André Carrington, Andrew Cornell, Aniruddha Das, Sohail Daulatzai, Arlene Dávila, Lisa Duggan, Alyosha Goldstein, Gayatri Gopinath, Miles Grier, Christina Hanhardt, Madala Hilaire, Peter Hudson, Walter Johnson, Ronak Kapadia, Kerwin Kaye, Robin D. G. Kelley, Aleyamma Mathew, Biju Mathew, Raza Mir, Naeem Mohaiemen, Ananya Mukherjea, Gary Okihiro, Rupal Oza, Jan Padios,MichaelPalm,DawnPeterson,KharyPolk,VijayPrashad,Junaid Rana, Ashwini Rao & CSFH, Anandaroop Roy, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein , Julie Sze, Jack Tchen, Emily Thuma, Saadia Toor, and Adam Waterman . We are especially grateful to Andrew Ross, who has advised and encouragedusonthisprojectfromthebook’sinceptiontoitscompletion. This has been a collaborative effort not only among the editors but also among our contributors, who have pushed and refined our collective arguments with their essays, have waited patiently, and worked furiously to meet deadlines. Their contributions have brought the book to life. Different configurations of the work in this volume were presented in earlier form at the conferences of the American Studies Association, the Association of Asian American Studies, and the Marxist Literary Group, and we thank those who engaged with us in those contexts. We are also thankful for the time and great care that Sharmila Rudrappa, Sukhdev Sandhu, and two anonymous reviewers took to read and comment on the book in its manuscript form—the critical feedback provided at this stage was invaluable. Our editor at New York University Press, Eric Zinner, championed this book from the time it was little viii > ix continue to collaborate. You all enrich my life enormously. My own contribution to the conception and execution of this book would not have been possible without the insight and inspiration of the many New York City leftist and/or progressive organizations that I have worked with over the years, including South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection (SAMAR), Coalition Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV), Youth Solidarity Summer (YSS), and the Asia Pacific Forum radio collective . At the Rockefeller Archive Center, Mary Ann Quinn’s help was invaluable. The last stages of this book were completed with the intellectual and institutional support of the American Studies Department at Amherst College and the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Certificate Program. For their support and encouragement I also want to acknowledge Andrew Hsiao, Leyla Mei, Tomio Geron, Chandana Mathur, Annanya Bhattacharjee, Manu Goswami, Gaiutra Bahadur , Shanna Lorenz, Marcelo Montes Penha, Natalie Sullivan Bimel, Jennifer Guglielmo, Elisabeth Armstrong, Kara Lynch, Chris Tinson, and Amina Steinfels. Last but not least, I want to thank my family: Narashima Reddy, Nirmala Reddy, Sumathi Reddy, Jonathan Rockoff, and Nikhil Reddy Rockoff. Manu Vimalassery would like to thank and acknowledge the Vimalassery and Kocherry diasporas, the World Forum of Fisher Peoples, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and the Julius Ford/Harriet Tubman Healthy Living Community. In addition to my fellow editors, Saad Abi-Hamad, Antoinette Burton, Jodi Byrd, Dantae Davies, Mike Funk, Karlos Hill, Fred Hoxie, David Jimenez, Moon-Kie Jung, Hye-Kyung Kang, Thomas Kocherry, Mo Lotif, Raza Mir, Dave Roediger, Pat Romney, Mérida Rúa, Josh Rubin, Dean Saranillio, Rani Varghese, Robert Warrior, Paul Wiley, and Diana Yoon (among others ) have helped make these years of intellectual and political growth. Thomas, Tessy, Priya, Anand, Amir, Diana, Maya: thank you for reminding me where I am, who I am, what I am about. This page intentionally left blank ...

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