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Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful for the many people who have helped make this book possible. They have journeyed with me not only through the development and completion of this manuscript but also through my adventure-filled transformation over the past ten years from law student at Boalt Hall to historian and Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. I had the great privilege of conducting my graduate studies under the mentorship and direction of José C. Moya. His wise counsel and guidance played a very important role in the successful completion of the dissertation upon which this book is based. I am also thankful for the encouragement and support provided by Kevin Terraciano, Henry Yu, Laura Gomez, and Juan Gomez-Quiñones, all of whom served on my doctoral committee. I wish to thank Evelyn Hu-DeHart of Brown University for her pioneering scholarship in the study of the Chinese in Latin America and for her support since my early days as a graduate student. I am also grateful for the strong support of my colleagues at the Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. This book project pushes the academic boundaries of our discipline, and my colleagues have believed in my nontraditional “Asian-Latino Studies” project from the get-go. Special thanks to past and current chairs Reynaldo Macias, Abel Valenzuela, Eric Avila, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba, who have sacrificed much to establish our department as one of the best of its kind. Special thanks also to Alessandro Duranti, Dean of the Social Sciences Division at UCLA, who provided generous subvention funding for this manuscript. I have enjoyed the privilege of devoting my full energies to the research and writing of this book thanks to generous funding provided by the Ford Foundation and the University of California Office of the President. I am deeply grateful for their support, which took the form of a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2003–2005 and a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for the 2008–2009 academic year. I would not be where I am today apart from my participation in these outstanding programs. Thanks also to Bill Deverell of the Huntington–USC xii Acknowledgments Institute on California and the West and Chon Noriega of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center for hosting me during my postdoctoral fellowship years with the UCOP and the Ford Foundation. Early support for my research project was also provided by the Ford Foundation in the form of a Predoctoral Fellowship. A special thanks is owed to senior acquisitions editor Patti Hartmann and the rest of the staff of the University of Arizona Press. Thank you for believing in my project and for publishing my first book. A warm note of thanks is also owed to manuscript editor Lisa Williams. Her thoughtful revisions were critical to the successful completion of this manuscript. A portion of chapter 3 was previously published as an article titled, “Transnational Chinese Immigrant Smuggling to the United States via Mexico and Cuba, 1882–191,” Amerasia Journal 30 (2004–2005): 1–16. The analysis in chapter 4 of Chinese–Mexican intermarriage was previously published as an article titled, “El destierro de los chinos: Popular Perspectives on Chinese-Mexican Intermarriage in the Early Twentieth Century,” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 32, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 113–44. Parts of chapter 6 of this book also appeared in substantial part in this previous Aztlán article. Thanks to Maura Dykstra, who assisted in the Chinese language translations used in this text. Thanks also to Leonard Melchor and Raul Sandoval, who both helped with the Spanish-language translations of this book. Leonard Melchor provided the Spanish-language translations included in chapter 4, and Raul Sandoval assisted with the translations found in chapters 5 and 6. Nicholas Bauch created the map found in chapter 3. Melissa Walker provided helpful assistance with the formatting of this manuscript. Finally, I wish to thank my family for their unwavering love and support . Without them, I would not be where I am today. Much love and special thanks to my parents, Drs. David Torres Romero and Ruth Chao Romero. They formed the original Asian-Latino family years before it became fashionable to study the topic, and their support is what sustained me through the grueling years of graduate school and my years as a postdoctoral fellow. Thanks also to my brothers, James, Michael, and Richard. For my wife, Erica, and my children, Robertito and Elena...