Frederick M. Link - John OKeeffe - a bibliography

One fine day, a long, long time ago, while I was knee-deep in fieldwork, Andrew Deener casually started referring to it as the book. All the painful anxiety this book has caused is thanks to him. I am only partially serious. There were many moments of pleasure and gratification that came along with the anxiety. Actually, now that I can allow myself some nostalgia as I write this last bit of the book, I recall fondly the intense joys of solidarity, allegiance to a cause, and unconditional familial love I experienced in Port City. In fact, I relished my fieldwork, and I owe to my Port City friends and family my passion, my words, and my identity as a sociologist. It was with my Port City friends and family that I nurtured intersectional brown solidarity.

I would also like to thank Andrew Deenerhis love for the discipline, wide breadth of knowledge, and talent as an ethnographer deeply shaped my work. Andrew always pushed me to reach for things that I thought I could not, and I owe him for that confidence in me. I also owe him for always thinking through my ideas with care, rigor, and a critical eye while also assuring me of its significance. My other mentors, Bandana Purkayastha and Claudio Benzecry, were in my corner from day onepushing me to write, think in new ways, and meet the benchmarks. They nourished my love for sociology and paved the way for this book in crucial ways. Bandana worked hard to ensure my progress in the program when an ongoing research project fell through due to technical issues and I had to start from scratch, and she painstakingly taught me the ways of U.S. academia, including navigating its exclusionary mechanisms while still finding joy and meaning in my own work. Claudio was always available to think through my ideas and provide new directions. He also often ensured that I was included in academic spaces I would otherwise avoid. A special shout-out also to my mentor Gaye Tuchman, the coolest professor I knew in graduate school who told me the feelings were mutual. (I am only kidding. I might have just dreamt this.) Gaye read my work and was always available to share her intellect and humor.

Clinton Sanders, Manisha Desai, and Davita Glasberg were fantastic teachers and friends in different ways. I am grateful to them for their wisdomI will carry it with me forever. I owe immense gratitude to my professors at Presidency and Calcutta University, India, Prasanta Ray, Dalia Chakrabarti, and Swapan Kr. Bhattacharyya, for teaching me sociology in ways that I never learned again. I carry them with me. At UConn, I also received the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement grant, Dean Ross MacKinnon Award for Excellence in Research, and the Hira Jain Scholarship, which helped me finish my research. My family of friends at UConn, Shweta Majumdar Adur, Chandra Waring (Ch), and Koyel Khan, saw me through thick and thin, giving me love, care, laughter, and unconditional friendship, and they have made the journey of life pleasurable. Without them as part of my family, life would not be as fulfilling. I owe them for more than this book. Other graduate school friends and comrades, many of whom had come, by themselves, from different parts of the world, just like I had, including Maxim Polonsky, Francisco Quintana, Sotirios Kentros, Trisha Tiamzon, Miho Iwata, and Lwendo Moonzwe, offered their sharp insights, deep friendships, and support as I conducted this ethnography. More importantly, they turned me into that person who constantly reminisces about graduate school. The wine (and other similar things), the study hours, and the deep tte--ttes will always be with me.

I brought this book with me to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to dwell some more in the painful anxiety. Georgiann Davis, Robert Futrell, Michael Ian Borer, and David Dickens kept up the pressure, and read proposals and whatnot until I sent it out. Georgiann Davis, Robert Futrell, and Barb Brents allowed me to talk them into reading the 120,000-word manuscript and pushed this book to a different level. I cannot thank Georgiann Davis and Robert Futrell enough for their thorough comments on the full manuscriptfor the next ten years I will buy you bourbon at happy hour, Robert, iced tea for you, Georgiann, to pay off my debt. I also benefited from countless other supportive colleagues who offered their intellectual support and friendship, including Christie Batson, Lynn Comella, Manoucheka Celeste, Brandon Manning, Constancio Arnaldo, Norma Marrun, Mark Padoongpatt, and Anita Revilla. My graduate and undergraduate students continue to remind me of the urgency of the work, and together, we continue to nourish the love for ideas and debates.

I am also indebted to esteemed colleagues outside of my university homes for their sharp insights and intellectual rigor, as well as other forms of gracious help with this work. My deep gratitude to Annette Lareau, Kathryn Edin, Randol Contreras, Lorena Garcia, Jessica Fields, Catherine Connell, Timothy Black, and Victor Rios. While I did not know all of these scholars personally, I relied on each of them for support. I have also benefited tremendously from the editorial direction and anonymous feedback I received over the years as I published articles from this work in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and Social Problems. It truly shaped the book in crucial ways.