Acknowledgments
Thanks go first to those who subsidized the work: the American Political Science Association, Clark University, the University of Pennsylvania’s Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics and the University Research Foundation, the joint Peace and Security Committee of the Social Science Research Council and the MacArthur Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I have never had as much difficulty raising funds as I have had with White World Order, Black Power Politics, and I want to express my gratitude in particular to all the reviewers, committee members, and trustees who fought on my behalf (and, incidentally, confirm the validity of the sociological model of academic knowledge production that informs the book). I include the allies I know by name below.
I am grateful to Cambridge University Press for permission to republish (as chapters one and two) my essay “The Noble Science of Imperial Administration and Its Laws of Race Development,” which originally appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History in 2010.
The list of advisors, caregivers, critics, and patrons is long, and I am sure I have forgotten a few. Thanks go to Begum Adalet, Hisham Aidi, Raphael Allan, Lisa Anderson, Osman Balkan, Duncan Bell, Tom Bender, Donald Blackmer, Bridget Blagoevski-Trazoff, Jessica Blatt, Cathy Boone, Terry Burke, Zoltan Buzas, Neta Crawford, Victoria de Grazia, David Ekbladh, David Engerman, Cynthia Enloe, Betsy Esch, Joe Feagin, Tom Ferguson, Kevin Gaines, Kim Gilmore, Julian Go, Jane Gordon, Lewis Gordon, Janette Greenwood, David Grondin, Nicholas Guilhot, Charlie Hale, Michael Hanchard, Deborah Harrold, Vicky Hattam, Errol Henderson, John Hobson, Alan Hunter, Amy Kaplan, Persis Karim, Lauren Kientz, Ellen Kennedy, Bruce Kuklick, the late and sorely missed Riki Kuklick, Paul Kramer, Bob Latham, Tilden LeMelle, Daniel Levine, Lily Ling, Zachary Lockman, David Long, Wahneema Lubiano, Ian Lustick, Ed Mansfield, Mark Mazower, Michael McGandy, Gil Merkx, Tim Mitchell, Anthony Monteiro, Dan Monk, Anne Norton, Amy Offner, Nell Painter, Jason Parker, Susan Pedersen, Brenda Plummer, Vijay Prasad, Adolph Reed Jr., Katharina Rietzler, David Roediger, Dorothy Ross, Kevin Rugamba, Ashley Salisbury, Barbara Savage, Brian Schmidt, George Shepard Jr., Robbie Shilliam, Brad Simpson, Nikhil Singh, Rogers Smith, Steve Smith, Ted Swedenburg, the Tabard Inn, Gaetano Di Tommaso, Evalyn Tennant, Deborah Thomas, Ann Tickner, Peter Trubowitz, Penny Von Eschen, Srdjan Vucetic, Kate Wahl, Alex Weiseger, Stephen Wertheim, Donald Will, Howard Winant, Michael Winston, Kent Worcester, Kevin Yelvington, Marilyn Young, and Tukufu Zuberi.
When Chloe Silverman, my in-house critic and model historian and sociologist of science, gave birth to our daughter, Phoebe Elana Vitalis, in May 2011, my department and dean granted me paternity leave and more over the next two years. That time permitted me to finish this book. Charles and Ray Eames, Bill Hajjar, and Florence Knoll made it comfortable while I did so. It is Chloe and Phoebe though who inspire me. The book is a lilac for them.
Finally, thanks to Beck, Bill Callahan, Andrew Chalfen and Trolleyvox, Susan Cowsill, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Ferron, Astrid Gilberto, the late Charlie Haden, Jason Isbell, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Luciana Souza, Jeff Tweedy, Neil Young, Lucinda Williams, Brian Wilson, and Jonathan Wilson.