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Acknowledgments There are many people to express my sincere gratitude to for the completion of this en- deavor. First and foremost, I would like to thank all the good people at ABC-CLIO who invited me to take on this challenging volume. In particular, I wish to thank Kim Kennedy White, my editor for this project, who has been extraordinarily patient and understand- ing with me. Second, I wish to thank my colleagues at San Francisco State University who shared resources with me and answered my questions in their area of research. Third, to my students who remind me, every day, of the value and importance of this work in shaping their identity and cultivating their purpose. Fourth, I wish to thank my partner, Mark S. Quady, for providing me the time to conduct research and write. Lastly, I wish to thank all my colleagues in the field of Asian American studies, whose scholarship informed the con- tent of this volume.