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Acknowledgments

This book has benefited from the intellectual and material support of many. At the University of California, Berkeley, I was fortunate to work closely with Stephen Best, Colleen Lye, and Samuel Otter. Individually and collectively they inspired and challenged me as this project first took shape. A special word of gratitude goes to Stephen for his invaluable support and encouragement of the project throughout its inception and writing. I am grateful also to Angela Harris for sharing her legal expertise as reader and interlocutor.

The University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley English Department provided much-needed institutional support for my research in its early stages. Over the course of the project, additional support was provided by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Williams College; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and the Five Colleges, Incorporated. The Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop held at Columbia Law School (2003) afforded me the opportunity to share my work with a brilliant grouping of scholars. I thank David Eng, Katherine Franke, Cheryl Harris, Daniel Hulsebosch, Teemu Ruskola, and Austin Sarat for their suggestions during discussion. Special thanks to Walter Johnson, whose illuminating commentary on my paper for the Workshop helped me to refine this book’s historical arguments. Audiences at New York University, Williams College, and the Five Colleges also provided productive dialogue. At the University at Albany, SUNY, Bret Benjamin, Rosemary Hennessey, and Mike Hill encouraged and pushed my research further, while sharing their own work with me and giving generously of their time to mentor me as a junior colleague.

At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, I am grateful to many English Department colleagues for their support and research stimulus: Nick Bromell, Suzanne Daly, Laura Doyle, Mason Lowance, Asha Nadkarni, Jordana Rosenberg, TreaAndrea Russworm, Joseph Skerrett, Jenny Spencer, and Ron Welburn. I am especially grateful to Ruth Jennison, my comrade at Berkeley long before we became colleagues at UMass, for these many years of intellectual collaboration. I want to thank also my colleagues in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, whose work is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship: Amilcar Shabazz, Manisha Sinha, James Smethurst, and Steven Tracy. The following pages have also benefited immensely from the scrupulous attention of the readers for NYU Press. I am grateful for the support of my series editors, David Kazanjian, Elizabeth McHenry, and Priscilla Wald. NYU Press editor-in-chief Eric Zinner supported this book project from its very beginning. I thank him and assistant editor Ciara McLaughlin for guiding me through the publication process with such care and enthusiasm. I also thank Aaron Winslow for research assistance, as well as Tim Roberts and Susan Murray for assisting in preparation of the manuscript.

Finally, I thank my family for their unwavering support of my intellectual pursuits. My sisters, Dao and Loan, and my brother, Khai, encouraged these pursuits long before any of us imagined what might come of them, and cheered me along the way these many years. This book is dedicated to my parents, Tho Chanh Phan and Lien Diep Phan. To them I owe my greatest debts, and my deepest bonds.