Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out
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 book is a user-friendly guide. The first section focuses on the voices of students of color and draws on the power of personal narratives to reveal alternate perspectives that illuminate and contest the dominant cultures often...
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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. Booknews Based on a video titled made with students of color at the University of Oregon, this volume presents a collection of personal narratives exploring the students' experiences of race. Themes addressed are school, language, and identity; reframing the educational process; hate crimes, white backlash, and teaching about whiteness; and other topics. Includes a checklist method of evaluating diversity in an institution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface: Genesis of This ProjectAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Conceptualizing Diversity1Pt. IUniversity Students of Color in Their Own Voices1School, Language, and Identity172Hopes and Coalitions and the Realities of Campus Life433Reframing the Educational Process and the Community as a Whole64Pt. IIRace and Ethnic Relations in Higher Education4The Tellers, the Tales, and the Audience: Narratives by Students of Color955Diversity in Higher Education Nationwide1136A Historical Look at Students of Color at the University of Oregon1337Hate Crimes, White Backlash, and Teaching about Whiteness153Conclusion: This Is Only the Beginning176AppA Checklist Method of Evaluating Diversity in Your Institution203Resources207About the Authors219Index236
\ BooknewsBased on a video titled made with students of color at the University of Oregon, this volume presents a collection of personal narratives exploring the students' experiences of race. Themes addressed are school, language, and identity; reframing the educational process; hate crimes, white backlash, and teaching about whiteness; and other topics. Includes a checklist method of evaluating diversity in an institution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \ \ \ \ Journal of Higher Education[This book] is an easy, good and necessary read for undergraduates, graduates, staff, and faculty and will serve as a valuable desktop reference to be used to model and build future research. It is one of the few books that effectively combines white privilege with the ideas and life experiences of people of color.\ \ \ Miltidiversity: Myers Book CommentaryThe Lesage et al book offers perspective on how higher education is, and is not, countering effectively the obstacles to a truly antiracist educational setting and system.\ \ \ \ \ Sage Race Relations AbstractsWhat does it feel like to be a minority student in a predominantly white university in a predominantly white state? This question is eloquently answered by the students of colour whose testimonies are at the heart of this book. Making a Difference is an important contribution to literature in this area.\ \
