Dr. Tabbye Chavous has been very instrumental in helping me think through the early stages of this project and has always provided wonderful critical feedback when called upon. Thank you for your encouragement of my ideas early on in graduate school, and for your continued support through the final stages.
Dr. Margaret Shih was a wonderful addition to the committee. Thank you for your involvement in the initial development of these ideas and your willingness to engage and provide helpful insights in this challenging process.
I would also like to thank Dr. Laura Klem at the Center for Statistical Consultation and Research at the University of Michigan and Hoa Nguyen in the African American Racial Identity Lab for their invaluable statistical assistance on this project. When the task seemed impossible at multiple stages they both spent their valuable time to point me in the right direction. Thank you!
I would also like to give special thanks to the expert raters for this study: Drs. Richard Ashmore, Mia Smith Bynum, Tai Chang, Elizabeth Cole, Deanna Cooke, Jennifer Crocker, Linda Juang, Richard Lee, Donna Nagata, Laura Morgan Roberts, Stephanie Rowley, Diane Ruble, Isis Settles, Nicole Shelton, Richard Suinn, for their generous and helpful feedback in modifying items contained within the Asian American Racial and Ethnic-specific identity inventories.
At Cambria Press I thank the editorial staff for their assistance and especially thank Toni Tan for contacting me about submitting my work for publication and for her attentiveness and enthusiasm throughout the publication process. It has been encouraging to find that there is interest in this topic that may generate future work in this area so that we can understand more about the lives of Asian Americans.