xiii Acknowl­edgments As with all proj­ects of this magnitude, it took the concerted efforts of many ­ people to bring this to completion. First, thanks go to the contributors for their dedicated research, excellent writing, meeting of deadlines, patience awaiting revisions, and overall cooperation through what has been a lengthy pro­cess. Thanks also to Kim Kennedy-­White for inviting me to help produce this work. It has provided me with many unexpected rewards and ­great satisfaction. My sincerest thanks go to the indefatigable, amazing, and heroic Jane Glenn, the development editor who shepherded this enormous proj­ect to the submission stage. She demonstrated such patience and grace in dealing with my delays, answer- ing my constant queries, and cheering me along. She also brought much-­needed humor to what could be at times a painstaking, tedious, and bewildering pro­cess. I also owe my gratitude to the entire editorial and production team who worked tire- lessly to bring this publication to press. Thanks as well to The Ohio State University and the History Department, which I called home ­ until 2016. The administration and my colleagues provided me ­ great resources during my years at the university. Danielle Grevious served as a very capa- ble research assistant on this proj­ect. Since 2016 I have enjoyed the support of the departments of Latino and Ca­rib­bean Studies and History at Rutgers University. Special thanks go to my research assistants Amy Castillo and Aziel Rosado, and to my editorial assistant, Lissette Flores. All three provided outstanding support. I thank my ­ family also for their love and support. Fi­nally, I reserve my greatest appreciation for Juan Gonzalez. Though we have shared only the last few years together, and our time has been filled with challenges and transitions, I am grateful for ­ every day that we have had. He has imparted invaluable lessons that have made me much wiser. He lived through and helped make some of the history in ­ these pages and has taught me an enormous amount about the current po­liti­cal moment in which we are living and the alternative world we might imagine. I trea­sure his intellectually stimulating conversation, as well as his kindness, patience, humility, and enduring love.
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