Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
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The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
In his book Portraits of White Racism, David Wellman argues convincingly that limiting our understanding of racism to prejudice does not offer a sufficient explanation for the persistence of racism. He defines racism as a “system of advantage based on race.”
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Luo captured in his open letter the challenge that microaggressions pose to the recipients. The “persistent sense of otherness” that he describes takes a psychological and physiological toll. Social science research has demonstrated that the cumulative effect of microaggressions “assail the self-esteem of recipients, produce anger and frustration, deplete psychic energy, lower feelings of subjective well-being and worthiness, produce physical health problems, shorten life expectancy, and deny minority populations equal access and opportunity in education, employment and health care.”
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Though the proposal must be approved by Congress and would not be in use until the 2020 census, the working MENA classification includes people with origins in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, or Yemen, as well as those who identify as Amazigh, Berber, Arab, Assyrian, Bedouin, Chaldean, Copt, Druze, Kurdish, or Syriac.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
People pay attention to those who control their outcomes.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Sometimes it is so thick it is visible, other times it is less apparent, but always, day in and day out, we are breathing it in.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
According to a 2013 American Values Survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), the social networks of White people in the United States are very homogeneous. Indeed, the PRRI researchers found that 75 percent of Whites have entirely White social networks, without any minority presence. This degree of social-network racial homogeneity is significantly higher than among Black Americans (65 percent) or Hispanic Americans (46 percent).
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
United States. However, the use of the term microaggressions has broadened to include all marginalized groups. Psychologist Derald Wing Sue defines the term as “the brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial, gender, sexual-orientation, and religious slights and insults to the target person or group.”147 Often involving the projection of stereotypes, they can occur at any moment of the day, a constant potential source of stress.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
“I had friends from all sorts of backgrounds, but my closest friends—the ones I spoke to about serious and personal topics… whom I related to as if they were family—were three Muslims.”212 They understood why she didn’t want to go to alcohol-heavy campus parties and why she chose to wear her hijab. Her family members had feared that in college she would lose herself, feeling forced to conform in negative ways. Zahra found the opposite was true. “On the contrary, I believe that the more I discovered who I am and what my relationship is with the world around me, the stronger I became academically and professionally.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Because I am a Black woman, these conversations are often framed in the context of Black-White relations. However, one of the lessons I have learned in the years that I have been teaching about racism is that racism is a live issue for other groups of color as well. My Latinx, Asian, Native American, Middle Eastern, and biracial students have taught me that they have a developing sense of racial/ethnic identity, too, and that all of us need to see our experiences reflected back to us. In that spirit, I have included discussions of the identity development of adolescents from all of these groups, in addition to the experiences of both Black and White adolescents.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
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