Research for this book was made possible with a 2015 Al Neuharth Grant for Investigative Reporting from the Gannett Foundation, an NYU MacCracken Fellowship (2014–19), a 2018 and 2020 Ford Foundation Grant for Creativity and Free Expression, and a 2018 fellowship at New York University’s Global Research Institute in Athens, Greece.
Chapter 1, “Mandingo,” and chapter 4, “Guilty Until Proven Innocent,” were published in different forms by BuzzFeed News in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
The author is grateful to these institutions for their support of his research over the years.