Praise for Facing You, Facing Me

In this book, we hear the honesty with which students express the emotional feelings of learning that are as important as the intellectual learning that goes on in classrooms. Stiles Hall provides a safe place where students can deal with the often-painful experience of letting go of old ideas and assimilating new ones. The book gives hope that colleges and universities will give more than lip service to diversity and train future leaders who can deal with the complexities of an increasingly diverse American society.
Clara Sue Kidwell, Professor and Director of Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma

Students frequently complain about the segregated nature of campus life, but very few have the opportunity to transcend social barriers and interrogate differences. The students in this volume have had that chance. For a brief moment in their lives, in an intimate setting with fellow students, these individuals have reflected on their social identities and challenged one another about the nature of power and privilege. Their voices are ones of anguish, frustration, pride, and hope. They illustrate how our individual identities are shaped in a dynamic engagement with those of others.
Michael Omi, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, U. C. Berkeley

There is disquietude about this book that marks it revolutionary. Clear and sober articulation of the relevance and significance of race on our ethnic, gendered, sexual, and class-oriented lives is uncommon for most Americans and unwelcome. This essential work offers this wisdom: that despite the ignoble social constructions of race, some of us are brave, speaking truth, and are successfully navigating our way through wholeness.”
Tracy L. Robinson, Professor of Education, North Carolina State University and Co-Editor of “Souls Looking Back: Stories of Growing Up Black”

Ordering Information

Books may be ordered via phone (510) 841-6010, fax (510) 841-0132 or email info@stileshall.org.