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Acknowledgments
Page 553: From “Expulsion of the Immigrants” by Huang Zunxian, translated by J. D. Schmidt in Waiting for the Unicorn: Poems and Lyrics of China’s Last Dynasty, 1644–1911 by Irving Yucheng Lo and William Schultz. Copyright © 1986 by William Rudolph Schultz and Irving Yucheng Lo. Reprinted with permission of Indiana University Press.
Pages 704–05: “Pretty Boy Floyd.” Lyrics and music by Woody Guthrie. Copyright © 1983 (Renewed 1991) WOODY GUTHRIE PUBLICATIONS (BMI)/Administration by BIG MUSIC. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.
Winold Reiss, Father and Two Children, St. Helena. Mixed media on Whatman board, 1927. Fisk University Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee (Combined Volume); Reuben Moulthrop (attr.), Mrs. Daniel Truman and Child, c. 1798-1810. Oil on canvas. Collection of the New York Historical Society, USA. (Volume 1); Yolanda Gonzalez, La Familia. Acrylic on canvas. (Volume 2)