Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race

by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Genres: Nonfiction

Kindle Edition

Published September 5, 2017

About the author

Dr. Beverly Christine Daniel Tatum (M.A., Religious Studies, Hartford Seminary, 2000; Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan, 1984; M.A., Clinical Psych., U.M., 1976; B.A., Psychology, Wesleyan University, 1971) is President Emerita of Spelman College, having served 13 years as President until her 2012 retirement. She is a psychologist and writes on race relations.

Previously, Dr. Tatum serves as Psychology Deopartment Chair at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and professor of Psychology at Westfield State College (1983–89). She started her academic career teaching Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 1980–83.

The American Psychological Association presented its highest honor to Dr. Tatum, the 2014 Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology.

Reviews

[Dani Quickley · Rating 5 out of 5]

There’s a wealth of information contained within the pages of this book, but the structure bothered me. Why are there 95 pages in the prologue? Why are there just eight pages in the introduction? If you’re the type of person who typically skips prologues, you may want to reconsider if you read this book because at the end the author outlines how the chapters in this edition differ from those in the first.

[Marcy Sorenson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD

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🎧 Audiobook

How do you rate a book such as this? How do you rate a book that has opened your eyes to truth you ignorantly ignored for so long? I always knew I had white privilege, but I never fully understood what that meant until the last few years and this book has helped educate me even further. Now that I know (and oh how I wish I knew sooner) I will not stand silently nor idolly by and let others speak. I am more mad than I have ever been and a large part of that is at myself. I can’t know what I didn’t know, but damnnit I should have educated myself sooner.

At this point this is less a review and more my letter of rage. I cannot recommend this book enough. Everyone needs to unlearn the half truths and out right lies we were taught.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written, gives steps that white people can take to be better allies while avoiding white saviorism.

[Jamie Spera · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 ⭐️