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Acknowledgments First and foremost, I want to sincerely thank my remarkable, patient, and understanding editor, Debbie Carvalko, for working with me on not only this book project but also several book projects over the years with Praeger/ABC- CLIO Publishing. I am truly grateful for her insight and experience in guiding me in new directions in writing. In addition, I thank the J. Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University for their excellent collections of research articles, special archived collections, and superior online services to access their collections at any time of the day. I also thank my incredible, thought-provoking, engaging, investigative, creative, and hopeful college students throughout all my years of teaching college classes, starting in the fall of 1983 and continuing today. Although at times it was a bumpy ride trying to learn my craft of teaching college classes to all types of college students, at different universities, in different parts of the country, I value this fantastic journey in academic engagement with students who are discovering more about the world and people through my courses and who will be the leaders of tomorrow. I feel blessed to have shared this moment in time with all of you! In particular, I want to thank the honor students in the Honors College Program at East Carolina University, who were in my most recent race-relations classes. They were Annaliese Gillette, Rachel Grantham, Carly Judd, Lindsey Locklear, Patricia Malcolm, Caroline Morgan, Alexandria Stephens, Angel Chukwu, Michael Denning, Tyler Ebeling, Ariel Fricke, Rachel Heatherly, Noah Lee, Nakaya Melvin, Adrienne Marie Orbita, Brooke Palmer, Mahima Pandoria, Charlotte Pearsall, Stephiya Sabu, Kendall Schunk, Godgive Umozurike, and Claudia Woznichak. These students, with support from the Honors College, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Public Health, the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of Stu- dent Affairs, and the Chancellor’s Office at East Carolina University, made it possible for me to venture into new academic territory for my new classes and new areas of research inquiry.