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Book: "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
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  1. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    Despair is an act of resignation I am not willing to make.
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  2. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    If young people are exposed to images of African American academic achievement in their early years, they won't have to define school achievement as something for Whites only. They will know that there is a long history of Black intellectual achievement.
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  3. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    Unfortunately for Black teenagers, those cultural stereotypes do not usually include academic achievement.
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  4. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    Resisting the stereotypes and affirming other definitions of themselves is part of the task facing young Black women in both White and Black communities.
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  5. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.
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  6. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people {and older people to} to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.
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  7. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    While I think it is necessary to be honest about the racism of our past and present, it is also necessary to empower children {and adults} with the vision that change is possible. Concrete examples are critical.
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  8. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    Social psychologist Susan Fiske writes,"It is a simple principle: People pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power."11
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  9. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    Learning to spot "that stuff "-whether it is racist, or sexist, or classist-is an important skill for children to develop.
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  10. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don't go away, they just go unasked.
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  11. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    In a situation of unequal power, a subordinate group has to focus on survival. It becomes very important for the subordinates to become highly attuned to the dominants as a way of protecting themselves from them.
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  12. Beverly Daniel Tatum _ "Why Are All The Black Kids

    For many people of color, learning to break the silence is a survival issue. To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression.The cost of silence is too high.
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