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

First published in 1997, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race addresses race and racism in the United States from a psychologist's perspective. Beverly Daniel Tatum is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience in researching racial identity development. We need to learn how to have productive dialogues about race and racism, and to do that we need to understand how our racial identities form and how they affect our lives.This guide is based on the updated edition released in 2017, which includes updates to the text as well as a new Prologue and Epilogue covering developments over the 20 years since the book was originally published. This guide also mirrors many of Tatum's choices with regard to language, including the capitalization of all racial and ethnic terms (including "White" and "Black"), the preference for the gender-neutral term "Latinx" over "Latino" or "Latina," and the variable use of terms referring to the same group (e.g. "Native American," "Native people," and "American Indian").