Noting a lack of sustained and productive dialogue about race in university writing center scholarship the editors of this volume have created a rich resource for writing center tutors administrators and scholars. Motivated by a scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies and by an ethical commitment to antiracism work contributors address a series of related questions How does institutionalized racism in American education shape the culture of literacy and language education in the writing center How does racism operate in the discourses of writing center scholarshiplore and how may writing centers be unwittingly complicit in racist practices How can they meaningfully operationalize antiracist work How do they persevere through the difficulty and messiness of negotiating race and racism in their daily practice The conscientious nuanced attention to race in this volume is meant to model what it means to be bold in engagement with these hard questions and to spur the kind of sustained productive multivocal and challenging dialogue that with a few significant exceptions has been absent from the field.