Table of Contents for What Happens When Students Are in the Minority: Experiences and Behaviors that Impact Human Performance

 

Part 1: Introduction to the Minority Effect

1.      The “Minority Effect” as a Human Phenomenon and Its Educational Implications

--Charles B. Hutchison

 

Part 2: The Minority Experience from the Perspective of Racial Minorities

2.      My Dark Curly Thick Hair was a Nemesis as All I Wanted was the Blond Straight Hair Parted Down the Middle and Romeo: A Misunderstood Student

--Anita McGee

3.      Black and Female in an All-White and Male Math Class, and Mercy’s Dilemma

--Ora Uhuru

4.      Is There a Minority in the House? Why I Dropped Out of College First Time Around, and Victimized Jones                        

– Maria Abelquist

  1. Seeing My Student at an All-White Church Saved My Day and the Double Lives and Social Consciousness of my White Students

--Kalilah Kilpatrick

6.      Experiencing the White Church, A Cross-Cultural Wedding Experience, and A New Angela: A Bicultural Personality  

--Aja’ Pharr

7.      A Black Female in a Predominantly White Male Class and Reversing Roles: A White Student Acting the Minority in Class 

--Lisa McCrimmon

8.      Self-Conscious at Pleasant Green and Minding Mandy, the White Minority in Class --------Carletta Bradley

  1. I Felt Like Everybody Else in the Church and It Only Took One Person to Help Me and Biracial and Double Minority

--Arron Deckard

Part 3: The Minority Experience from the Perspective of Whites

10.  Comparing Experiencing the Minority Exercise to a Warzone Experience: A Soldier’s Reflection and Breaking Out in Cold Sweat in All-Women’s Company

--Daniel Blankton

11.  I Already Felt Unwelcome, and …This Feeling was Completely Inside My Head, and Stuttering at a Staff Meeting

--Ryan Delehant

12.  Getting a “Good Seat” at Granite, and A Different Worldview, a Different Life

--Stephanie Johnston

13.  Experiencing the Minority at a Hip-Hop Dance Class, and A Good-Kid-Turned-Bad: Surviving Black History Month

--Karlie Kissman

14.  A German’s Visit to a Latino Church, and German Sensibilities at a Super Bowl Party

--Angela Jakeway

15.  Understanding My Students at Church, and Finding My Feet at My In-Laws’

--Jim Cross

16.  Experiencing the Minority as the Only White in Church, the Only Woman in Corporate Meetings, and as a Denominational Minority 

--Betty Danzi

  1. Experiencing the Minority at a Black Church, Fitting in as a Reverse Minority in School, and Thinking Religion “Outside the Box”

--Brian Bongiovanni

18.  Surviving in Church and Understanding the Minority through Inter-Racial Marriage

--Crystal Sisk

 

Part 4: Short Narratives of Diverse of Minority Experiences

19.  It’s Eleven Thirty at Night, and Da Club is Jumpin’       

--Matt Reid

20.  I Fit in Perfectly with the Corporate Environment… [Except for] My Accent

            --Joseph Edmonds

21.  The Few White Girls in the Dance Hall  

--Tiffany Adams

22.  A Lone White Female in an All-Black Course        

--Lauren Emerson

23.  A White Guy at Black Student Union Party                  

--Jeremy Laliberte

24.  Slowly Embracing a Different Taste                         

--Melissa Loftis

25.  Surviving in a New School through the School Band, but No Drums Please! 

--Loretta Sullivan

 

Part 5: Concluding Narratives and Analyses

26.  Lessons Learned from My Minority Experience   

--Ann Wright

27.  Experiencing the Minority at the Local Restaurant    

--Tracie S. Clark

28.  The Minority Experience from the Perspective of Students of African Origin                  

--Clifford Afam

29.  Experiencing the Minority: Overcoming Double Consciousness in the Classroom

–LaTasha Johnson

30.  Comparative Reflections: Lessons Learned about the Minority Experience

31.  --Charles Hutchison