Virginia Mansfield-Richardson - Asian Americans and the Mass Media

FOR MY HUSBAND BRIAN

There are many persons without whose support and guidance this book would not have been possible. My sincere appreciation is offered to Anne Cooper-Chen who oversaw the original dissertation research project that this book grew from. Other members of that dissertation committee also deserve sincere thanks, including Guido Stempel III, Harry Kaneshige, and Candice Thomas-Maddox for their expert advice and editing. Ralph Izard and the faculty and staff of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University also deserve thanks for providing such a friendly and intellectually enriching environment for my doctoral studies. Terri Brooks and the faculty and staff of the College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University also provided a supportive atmosphere during my tenure as an associate professor there when I conducted much of the research for the project, and during the editing process for this book. The work of my research assistants, Nilanjana Bardhan and Dan Nicholson, was immensely helpful to this project. Of course, without the support of Lisa Chung and the members of the Asian Americans Journalists Association, much of the research in this book would not have been completed. Finally, I would also like to thank those persons at the newspapers that responded to my numerous inquiries during the data collection stages of this book.