Building a Healthy Black Harlem: Health Politics in Harlem, New ...

Acknowledgments

I gratefully acknowledge the editors and staff at Cambria Press. Their attention and professionalism have made this experience a successful one.

Thank you to Thomas Bender, Robert Hinton, Walter Johnson, and Robin D. G. Kelley who all provided help, patience, and wisdom. Howard Johnson has been stalwart and supportive. He helped me navigate the obstacles of my undergraduate education and graduate school training. He continues to guide me through the labyrinth of academia.

Many thanks to the staff and librarians at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and also the Humanities and Social Sciences Library in New York City.

Suzanna Reiss and Njoroge Njoroge, two formidable intellectuals and friends, have offered encouragement and helped me conceptualize how one can tell the stories of the forgotten. Haik Hoisington listened to my rambling about the subject for years over drinks.