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Acknowledgments

Profound gratitude: To Hazel Carby, for opening up this project—and the worlds it addresses—so many times, with a few precise and luminous words. To Michael Denning, for countless clarifying readings of my work, and for demonstrating—through his indomitable capacities for collaborative inquiry—that intellectual labor can itself be a form of political praxis. To Alicia Schmidt Camacho, for reminding me what’s at stake, and for showing me what’s possible, in the classroom and on the page.

To Jean-Christophe Agnew, a wonderful teacher. To Lisa Lowe, whose urgent pedagogy provoked some of the questions at the core of this book. To Paul Gilroy, for support and inspiration. To You-Me Park and Henry Schwarz, for planting a seed. To Garnette Cadogan, interlocutor sui generis. To Colin Apple, Philip Bell, Goodloe Byron, Erik Lamb, Elizabeth Manekin, Nikki Smirl, Scott Statland, and Cody Upton—dear friends and guides. To Ed Krcma and Boris Pennington, for rigorous tea times, from Brooke Road to Osbaldeston. To my students, whose moral and imaginative thinking pushes my own, and restores my faith in what is to come. To my Yale comrades—among them Sigma Colón, Rossen Djagalov, Amina El-Annan, Daniel Gilbert, Joshua Glick, Tao Leigh Goffe, Sarah Haley, Andrew Hannon, Edward King, Monica Muñoz Martinez, David Minto, A. Naomi Paik, Ariana Paulson, J. Jesse Ramírez, Yenisey Rodriguez, Andrew Seal, Van Truong, and Gabriel Winant—for solidarities intellectual and otherwise. To Susan Amussen, Katherine Brokaw, Nigel Hatton, David Torres-Rouff, and the University of California, Merced Center for the Humanities, for providing me with a nurturing home in which to think and write at just the right time. To Samuel Amadon, David Bajo, Elise Blackwell, Liz Countryman, Susan Courtney, Holly Crocker, Michael Dowdy, Brian Glavey, Anne Gulick, Anthony Jarrells, Catherine Keyser, Seulghee Lee, Nina Levine, Evren Ozselcuk, and Gretchen Woertendyke, and to all of my colleagues in the English Department at the University of South Carolina, for creating such an extraordinary community, and for welcoming me into it with kindness and warmth. To one of those colleagues, Greg Forter, for reading two iterations of this book, and for responding each time with vital and brilliant insight. To its anonymous reviewers, whose trenchant readings improved it immeasurably. To its editor, Niels Hooper, for listening to and hearing my ideas with acuity. To Bradley Depew, Jolene Torr, and Jessica Adams, for their crucial and consummate interventions.

To Krisztina Harsanyi, Tamas Jilling, and Andrea Jilling, for embracing me in their beautiful family. To Zsofia Jilling, whose grace and love touched every word. To Amália. To Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, who has taught me so much about writing and being in the world. And finally, to Katherine Jelly and Steven Schapiro, my first and greatest teachers; this book is for you.