ABSTRACT
This book has grown out of urgent, sometimes anguished, hurried-hallway, office door-slamming conversations as we each responded to, tried to support each other through, and learned to negotiate the waves of White dominance breaking over especially our colleagues of color in sometimes daily storms. We White instructors, disciplined to accept these storms in silence and to ride them out alone, learned from our Black women colleagues first to hold each other, then to find and develop language to name this daily onslaught: together. As writing teachers, we know that languages and words are action and truth-telling must evoke action from well-intentioned people and systems, otherwise our persistent institutional inaction speaks for itself.
