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

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ReadHowYouWant.com, May 21, 2010 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 452 pages
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clus...
 

Contents

Defining
3
Racism
13
The Complexity
24
3
41
Identity Development in Adolescence
71
Racial Identity
103
White Identity and Affirmative
156
American Identity Development
179
Identity Development in Multiracial Families
229
Embracing a CrossRacial
265
Getting Reader Discussion
272
Conversation
283
Notes
325
Acknowledgments
404
Index
411

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