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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges financial assistance for the publication of this book from the John C. Flanagan Dissertation Fellowship and the Graduate School at the University of Washington.

Publication made possible in part by support from the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) sponsored by the UC Berkeley Library.

Poems by June Jordan are reprinted in chapter 5. All poems copyright 2005 by the June M. Jordan Literary Estate. Reprinted with permission. www.junejordan.com.

An earlier version of part of chapter 2 was published as “Representing Permanent War: Black Power’s Palestine and the End(s) of Civil Rights,” CR: New Centennial Review 8, no. 2 (Fall 2008): 193–231; copyright 2008 by Michigan State University; reprinted by permission. Another part of chapter 2 was previously published as “Towards an Afro-Arab Diasporic Culture: The Translational Practices of David Graham Du Bois,” ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics 31 (2011): 152–72; reprinted with permission.

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A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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