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"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" (1997) (edit title/settings)

A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

by Beverly Daniel Tatum (Author) (edit contributors)

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Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same... read more

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Malcolm
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Early in my teaching career, a White student I knew asked me what I would be teaching the following semester.

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Part I. A DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. Defining Racism - "Can we talk?"
2. The Complexity of Identity - "Who am I?"

Part II. UNDERSTANDING BLACKNESS IN A WHITE CONTEXT
3. The Early Years - "Is my skin brown because I drink chocolate milk?"
4. Identity Development in Adolescence - "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?"
5. Racial Identity in Adulthood - "Still a work in progress . . ."

Part III. UNDERSTANDING WHITENESS IN A WHITE CONTEXT
6. The Development of White Identity - "I'm not ethnic, I'm normal."
7. White Identity and Affirmative Action - "I'm in favor of affirmative action except when it comes to my jobs."

Part IV. BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE
8. Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development - "There's more than just Black and White, you know."
9. Identity Development in Multiracial Families - "But don't the children suffer?"

Part V. BREAKING THE SILENCE
10. Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue - "We were struggling for the words."

Appendix Getting Started:A Resource Guide
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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Beverly Daniel Tatum (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 046509127X
Page Count: 288

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Dewey: 305.800973

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Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Race Relations › America
Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies
Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural

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