Many people helped in the building of this book. We owe a great debt to the many scholars of critical mixed race studies whose names appear in the endnotes and bibliography, and to the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association, at whose meeting we first presented much of this work. Among the people who contributed to that occasion who were not able to join us in the volume but whose fine minds helped us arrive at our destination are Evelyn Alsultany, Niccole Coggins, Kevin Escudero, Camilla Fojas, Teresa Hodges, Sally Howell, Mark James, Laura Kina, Becky King-O’Riain, Joo Young Lee, LeiLani Nishime, Juliana Pegues, Zeli Rivas, and Michael Thornton. We especially want to thank the individual contributors to this volume for their outstanding work, and Nitasha Sharma for bringing the volume together with her thoughtful and insightful epilogue.
Thanks are due to our home institutions, Arizona State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. They have provided us happy homes for scholarly work, access to fine libraries, and the company of stimulating colleagues, especially in the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at ASU and the Departments of Black Studies, Asian American Studies, and History at UCSB. Leslie Mitchner and her colleagues at Rutgers University Press have been model editors and abettors of our intellectual enterprise.
Our families have been ridiculously supportive of this project, as of so many others over the years. Joanne L. Rondilla would like to thank her Arizona community and students at ASU and UC Berkeley for reminding her that the work we do matters. Maraming salamat to her family for their unwavering support. Finally, she would like to thank her husband Jose Ureta for managing to love her, even when she’s hundreds of miles away. Rudy Guevarra Jr. would like to thank his family and friends for their continued love and support over the years, and his students who never cease to inspire him. Paul Spickard thanks Anna Lucky Louise Spickard for unswerving engagement and encouragement of his work, and for not neglecting the great achievements of her own.