The experiences of a teacher and his white students on a nationwide
trek toward racial understanding
In 1998 James Waller took twenty-one white college students from
Washington state on a month-long journey. "Prejudice Across
America" is the record of their interaction with the American
Indian, Asian American, African American, Hispanic, and Jewish
experiences nationwide. Few books have so directly and humanly
captured the moment when whites confront the realities of those
living as a minority in America.
Waller reports here on this innovative and award-winning trek.
In Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans,
Birmingham, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., his students hear both
the official story of prejudice and the street story from people
living and dealing with racism on a daily basis. "Prejudice Across
America" is as much the journal of these travelers and what they
face as it is a sweeping, up-close survey of the nation's racial
landscape.
The students walk the cheerless halls of a South Side housing
project in Chicago, experience the agitated aftermath of the
Olympic Games in Atlanta, and attend a briefing with President
Clinton's Initiative on Race. All along the way, they hold
wide-ranging group discussions and experience the unpredictable
adventure of traveling by train, plane, and public transit.
Drawing on student journals and on interviews with community
leaders and activists throughout the country, Waller paints a
compelling and provocative portrait of the nation's prejudice. In
addition, "Prejudice Across America" includes analyses of the
obstacles to reconciliation in each of the cities on the tour's
itinerary.
As they travel, students confront the thorny issues of race in
America, face down stereotypical thoughts, prejudicial attitudes
and discriminatory behaviors, and uncover more tough questions than
easy answers. As Waller and another group of students prepare for a
similar trek in 2001, "Prejudice Across America" will allow readers
to join them in introspection and self-discovery in the urban
reality of an America where diversity isn't simply a buzzword, but
a way of life.
James Waller is a professor of psychology at Whitworth College
in Spokane, Washington. He has also published "Face to Face: The
Changing State of Racism Across America" (1998).
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