Race and Identity
Does your race impact the way you experience your life in the United States?  Chances are high that, unless you live in an extremely remote and homogenous community with little contact with the rest of society, your race does impact your sense of identity.  The more important question is, "How? "

Regardless of our attitudes, preferences, and beliefs about race one fact remains: we are racial beings. We all live somewhere between our individuality and the various meanings assigned to our racial group identities.

Diversity Within Diversity 
Often, so much attention is paid to tension between racial groups, that little exploration is done on what one's own racial status really means.  

At the very core of racial tension is an unchallenged assumption that all members of a racial group are alike.  We may know, intellectually, that this is not true.  However, we seldom go further into exploring just how untrue that assumption is.  Perhaps, one of the very things that causes racial tensions between groups is our failure to understand the diversity that  exists among members of the same racial group.

This series of web pages is intended to help us simply see each other as White or Black or Latino or Asian or Native American.  It is our hope that, by simply offering glimpses of what each of these created categories might mean for any single individual, we can begin to understand the complexity of race on our campus and in our society.  Only then can we begin to explore the challenges between us that come from race and racism. 

Click on the Links Below to Explore the Diversity of Racial Perspectives that Enriches Your Campus

Click Here for Some Questions to Help You and Your Peers Explore The Many Perspectives on Race In the Human Beings of the Human Race

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