Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
In Making a Difference, students of color relate their first-hand experiences with educational systems and campus living conditions. Their narratives provide an insider perspective useful to anyone working on diversity issues who is trying to improve institutional culture and policy. The contextualizing essays following the student narratives are written by academics and student affairs professionals who draw links between issues of institutional access, recruitment and retention of students and faculty of color, curriculum changes, teaching strategies--especially for teaching whiteness and racial identity formation, campus climate, and the relation between an individual institution's history of dealing with race to developments in public policy.
Table of Contents
University students of color in their own voices. School, language, and identity -- Hopes and coalitions and the realities of campus life -- Reframing the educational process and the community as a whole. Race and ethnic relations in higher education. The tellers, the tales, and the audience : narratives by students of color / Debbie Storrs and Julia Lesage -- Diversity in higher education nationwide / Donna Wong -- A historical look at students of color at the University of Oregon / Donna Wong -- Hate crimes, white backlash, and teaching about whiteness / Abby L. Ferber -- Conclusion : this is only the beginning / Abby L. Ferber and Donna Wong.