Foreword / Daniel L. Dustin -- Meaningful dialogue / Dan K. Hibbler -- Some things change, but many stay the same / Maria T. Allison -- Portrait of annihilation : memoirs of a Puerto Rican in the Ivory Tower / Carlos Ivan Ramos -- My journey of discovery : the quest to determine, "who am I?" / Corliss Wilson Outley -- Vested mentorship : increasing ethnic diversity in recreation education / Ladd G. Colston -- Beyond reproach / Rene Fukuhara Dahl -- Deconstructing diversity in leisure studies / Myron F. Floyd.