This book grew out of a workshop held at Texas Southern University (TSU) in Houston on 8–9 November 2002, which was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages Program. The editors would like to thank the other colleagues who participated in the workshop, Nupur Chaudhuri and Karen Kossie-Chernyshev of TSU and Kerry Ward of Rice University. The editors also gratefully acknowledge the support of TSU, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Houston. Texas Southern also provided assistance for the publication of this volume.