Acknowledgments

I would like to thank John Solomos, Satnam Virdee, and Aaron Winter for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important series. Over the past few years, Aaron has frequently offered a sounding board for my ideas and generously shared his expertise on far-right racism in the U.S. Satnam’s initial encouragement and subsequent comments on the manuscript have been invaluable. Kiran Grewal, Katherine Robinson, and Miranda Iossifidis have read various drafts of some of the chapters herein and provided much-needed feedback. As well as reading draft chapters, over the years Brett St Louis and Ben Gidley have given intellectual guidance without which I wouldn ’ t have started, much less finished, this book. Daniel HoSang Martinez, whose nuanced understanding of U.S. racism has been formative to my thinking for many years, provided insightful advice on the manuscript that undoubtedly helped me to improve it. I am grateful for the camaraderie of my colleagues in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths. Katherine Robinson and Vik Loveday in particular have provided constant encouragement and commiseration. I am grateful to those at Manchester University Press, and especially Tom Dark, for their help in preparing the manuscript, as well as Jessica Cuthbert-Smith for her skillful editing. My research is indebted to E.R. Bills and Constance Hollie-Jawaid, who have worked to bring the history of the Slocum Massacre to public light. I hope that my chapter will contribute in some small way to the ongoing struggle for recognition and justice. Kelly Francis-Love, archivist at the Museum of South Texas History, was exceptionally helpful in enabling me to access documents related to the Plan de San Diego uprising. Madeline Moya undertook proxy research assistance in several Texas archives that has been essential to the project. My friend Betty Marín has graciously provided her excellent translation skills whenever I ’ ve messaged her at odd hours with random questions about early twentieth-century Spanish-language texts. My mom, Laurie, proofread every chapter without complaint. My partner, Peter, and children, Aella, Gabriel, and Peter Rafel, have endured many weekends and evenings of me sitting in front of a computer or away in the library. Whether or not they ever read this book, their presence and support have sustained me through the long and arduous process of writing it.