The other contributors to the book offer their experiences from the perspective of one-time outsiders who are now faculty and staff at predominantly white, American institutions of higher learning. Having wrestled with the micro-realities of representing difference and navigating oppressive situations on their campuses, in their departments and curricula, with their colleagues and students, they return to the radical expectations and transformative possibilities of diversity. This presentation will allow us to explore the sociological implications of increasing diversity and to consider the pragmatic questions of how and when to make private conversations public for the purpose of mutual and academic transformation.

Lunch will be served. RSVP to seb376@drexel.edu

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology.