Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

A study guide of Beverly Daniel Tatum’s 2020 book ‘Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?’

Praxis

  • What positions of power do I occupy in society, and how can I use my sphere of influence to fight racist systems of oppression?

  • Where am I in my journey of racial identity development, and what progress is there to be made in my racial identity development?

  • How is/was my experience in school impacted by my race? 

  • Who do/did I sit with at the cafeteria in school? How much of this was or wasn’t impacted by race?

Further Reading: 

  • The Asian American Achievement Paradox by Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee 

  • Growing Up Muslim: Muslim College Students in America Tell Their Life Stories edited by Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny

  • Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Source

Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Basic Books, 2020.

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