Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out »

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.

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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)