Did affirmative action programs solve the problem of race on American college campuses, as several recent books would have us believe? If so, why does talking about race in anything more than a superficial way make so many students uncomfortable? Written by college instructors from many disciplines, this volume of essays takes a bold first step toward a nationwide conversation. Each of the twenty-nine contributors addresses one central question: what are the challenges facing a college professor who believes that teaching responsibly requires an honest and searching examination of race?

Acknowledgments Introduction: Race in the College Classroom Part 1 Authority and (Il)Legitimacy 1. Two Voices From the Front Lines: A Conversation About Race in the Classroom 2. Teaching In Florida: the End of Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race 3. A Ghost in the Collaborative Machine: the White Male Teacher in the Multicultural Classroom 4. Decentering Whiteness: Resisting Racism in the Women's Studies Classroom 5. Smashing the Rules of Racial Standing When the Political Is Personal: Life on the Multiethnic Margins 6. The Entanglements of Teaching Nappy Hair 7. Beyond Bull Conner: Teaching Slavery in Alabama 8. Fear and the Professorial Center Part 2 Rewards and Punishments 9. Out on a Limb: Race and the Evaluation of Frontline Teaching 10. Whiteness on a White Canvas: Teaching Race in a Predominantly White University 11. Gift Wrapped or Paper Bagged?: Packaging Race for the Classroom 12. The Question of Comfort: The Impact of Race on/in the College Classroom 13. Far More Than Frybread: The Tender Issue of Race in Teaching Literature 14. Menaced by Resistance: the Blackteacher in the Mainly White School/Classroom 15. Strategies for Surviving Race in the Classroom 16. Traps, Pitfalls, and Obstacles: Challenges to Confronting Racism in Academia Part 3 Transformative Practices 17. Confronting the "Screaming Baboon": Notes on Race. Literature, and Pedagogy 18. Centering the Margins: A Chicana in the English Classroom 19. Race, Discomfort and Love in a University Classroom 20. Moonwalking Technoshamans and the Shifting Margin: Decentering the Colonial Classroom 21. The Colorblind Cyberclass: Myth and Fact 22. Skinwalking and Color Linecrossing: Teaching Writing Against Racism 23. Racing Into the Academy: Pedagogy and Black Faculty 24. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Teaching the Biology of Human Variation and the Social Construction of Race Conclusion: Teaching to Make a Difference Selected References Contributors