Making a Difference University Students of Color Speak Out

by Lesage, Julia; Ferber, Abby L.; Storrs, Debbie; Wong, Donna

• ISBN13: 9780742500792
• ISBN10: 0742500799
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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

Preface: Genesis of This Project	ix
Julia Lesage
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction: Conceptualizing Diversity	1	(16)
Julia Lesage
Part I: University Students of Color in Their Own Voices
School, Language, and Identity	17	(26)
Hopes and Coalitions and the Realities of Cam us Life	43	(21)
Reframing the Educational Process and the Community as a Whole	64	(31)
Part II: Race and Ethnic Relations in Higher Education
The Tellers, the Tales, and the Audience: Narratives by Students of Color	95	(18)
Debbie Storrs
Julia Lesage
Diversity in Higher Education Nationwide	113	(20)
Donna Wong
A Historical Look at Students of Color at the University of Oregon	133	(20)
Donna Wong
Hate Crimes, White Backlash, and Teaching about Whiteness	153	(23)
Abby L. Ferber
Conclusion: This Is Only the Beginning	176	(27)
Abby L. Ferber
Donna Wong
Appendix: A Checklist Method of Evaluating Diversity in Your Institution	203	(4)
Resources	207	(12)
About the Authors	219	(17)
Index	236