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Preface Race and Ethnic Relations on Campus: Understanding, Empowerment, and Solutions for College Students is a new approach to addressing and better understanding many of the major controversial issues associated with race and ethnic rela- tions for today’s college students. Due to the current wave of societal racial conflicts across the United States, college students have become astutely aware of many of these issues, yet may not know how to conceptualize and deal with these issues effectively. This book confronts these race- and ethnic- relations issues directly and sets in motion a whole new way of thinking on how today’s college students can do something about it. The significance of this new book on race and ethnic relations is that it is the first and only book that provides today’s college students not only a new approach to address these serious issues but, more importantly, new practi- cal strategies to solve these issues individually and collectively. No longer can universities ignore the varying types of race- and ethnic-relations issues that arise on each campus every year. All those involved in recruiting, teaching, and graduating our next set of college students, which continues to increase in its diversity, must establish a new strategy to address the most controversial topic on college campuses today—race relations. My personal journey with race-relations issues actually began during my early years of growing up in Wilberforce, Ohio, and going to public school in Xenia, Ohio (approximately 15 miles east of Dayton). As a very proud native Ohioan and Buckeye, I was born in Springfield, Ohio, and spent my first six years of life, including first grade, here with my mom, Jean Ethel Ballew Bailey my dad, Roger William Bailey Jr. and my three older brothers, Billy, Ronnie, and Dwight. Etched into my memory of first grade in the public school in Springfield is a very special teacher. I had become extremely ill that year, and my parents had to hospitalize me. I had developed pneumonia, which required hospital- ization for several days. I can’t recall exactly how many days I missed from