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Scholarship March 29, 2017

Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out

The Wabash Center

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Author
Lesage, Julia, Abby L. Ferber, Debbie Storrs, Donna Wong, eds.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Lanham, MD
ISBN
742500802
Table of Contents
Preface: Genesis of This Project (Julia Lesage)
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conceptualizing Diversity (Julia Lesage)

Part I University Students of Color in Their Own Voices
ch. 1 School, Language, and Identity
ch. 2 Hopes and Coalitions and the Realities of Campus Life
ch. 3 Reframing the Educational Process and the Community as a Whole

Part II Race and Ethnic Relations in Higher Education
ch. 4 The Tellers, the Tales, and the Audience: Narratives by Students of Color (Debbie Storrs and Julia Lesage)
ch. 5 Diversity in Higher Education Nationwide (Donna Wong)
ch. 6 A Historical Look at Students of Color at the University of Oregon (Donna Wong)
ch. 7 Hate Crimes, White Backlash, and Teaching about Whiteness (Abby L. Ferber)

Conclusion: This Is Only the Beginning (Abby L. Ferber and Donna Wang)
App A Checklist Method of Evaluating Diversity in Your Institution
Resources
About the Authors
Index
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. (From the Publisher)