Merci
Jake Lamar, I'm grateful for your writing, your interviews with me, and the materials you sent my way.
Marilyn Thomas-Houston, thank you for your outreach, for seeing the potential in my work based on my essay “The Making of a Collective (re)Memory: James Emanuel’s Drafting of ‘DEADLY JAMES (For All the Victims of Police Brutality)’” in the special issue of Fire!!!: The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies. I appreciate your patience and your keen insight.
I’m grateful for the support of the Afro-Publishing Without Walls team. Dr. Ronald Bailey, thank you for the support, the resources, and the invitations to present my scholarship in progress. I’m grateful for the translations of the videos included in this project.
Thank you, Virginia Tech Publishing. Peter Potter, thank you for reading drafts, offering suggestions, giving me insights about my creative direction, and providing resources that brought my ideas to the screen. Corinne Guimont, I appreciate your structure and resourcefulness. Soonyoung Kim, for all the feedback, the co-creative energy and work we put into the project.
Tracy Vosbourgh, thank you for listening to me discuss my interactive literary analysis and then providing a way to make my vision happen. Steven White, it was great working with you. I said what I wanted and voilà! Dan Mirolli, thank you for providing the studio and an expert ear.
And I can’t forget my dissertation committee—Dana Williams, Yasmin DeGout, Christopher Shin, and Greg Carr—who saw early drafts of this interactive literary analysis when it was called “‘A Man Among Men in Algerian Paris’ Modeling Motivation and Movement in Jake Lamar’s Rendezvous Eighteenth,” and it looked nothing like this. They knew what I was going for.