DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What steps need to be taken to deconstruct the perception of " white space " when the racial demographic of the student population would suggest it is not? 2. What are strategies to recruit a diverse pool of resident assistants? 3. Black RAs can be an important support network for Black students and other students of color. How can housing departments ensure that Black RAs are not inundated with emotional labor in their attempts to support other students of color? Discussion questions developed by LaFarin Meriwether, University of North Carolina Greensboro, and Chandra Myrick, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Volume 48, No. 3 * 2022 57