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Title: Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity, Revised edition by Beverly Daniel Tatum ISBN: 0-465-08361-7 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for understanding who we are as Americans
Comment: If you are to read one book on American culture this year, let it be this one. This is the clearest, smartest and most accurate description of race, and racism, in America and it should be required reading for every student throughout the country. Working years in urban high schools, being white and seeing hopes and dreams grow and then be dashed with so many of our kids, I have struggled to understand the nature of our culture and who our kids are, and why they behave as they do. This book is the first that really makes perfect sense, and I will give it as a Christmas gift to as many people as I can afford. I hope Tatum provides a followup that focuses on our hardcore, urban poor kids, really the most misunderstood, feared and forgotten in this sad but accurate commentary on our culture. There is still so much to be said, and she is able to say it clearly and wisely.
Rating: 5
Summary: Vital handbook for our country
Comment: This book ended up being both informative and intersting, a set of adjectives which frequently do not walk together.
However, Dr. Tatum has masterfully tackled a controversial topic, explained it in a perfect blend of academic and common-sense language, and put forth a pro-active plan for thinking which is innovative and exciting.
This book starts us from the beginning by deconstructing the very ideas of "white" and "black," and by discussing the terminology itself. From there, she begins to talk about social models of behavior and more complex ideas, but she never loses the "essential" nature of her subject.
Dr. Tatum's book is perfect for anyone who ever plans to have children or who works with them, because it deals with the effects that race relations have on kids. This under-studied field is, in my opinion, one of the most important because it is children who are harmed the most by polarized race relationships. Dr. Tatum discusses tools for dealing with children throughout the book, citing practical examples and giving the reader a place to go from the last page of the book into real life application.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: that's just what she was talking about!
Comment: (...)This book does an excellent job of describing the ways that racism exists today, and moreover, tactics for overcoming it. By stating that racism may be a "white problem," Tatum is not calling all of us racists, she is saying that the problems that still exist today can best be solved by those who hold the power. Acknowledging your (my) privilege takes courage, but it needs to be done. ML King was great, but he got what he was looking for and things are still dangerous, schools and busineses are still segregated, and angry whites are still ultra-defensive and refusing to help change things. There's another part of the puzzle, and Tatum is giving us a guide.
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Title: We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools (Multicultural Education Series (New York, N.Y.).) by Gary R. Howard ISBN: 080773800X Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Norman Rockwell : A Life by LAURA CLARIDGE ISBN: 0812967232 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Art For Beginners by Dani Cavallaro, Daniel Cavallaro ISBN: 0863162657 Publisher: Writers & Readers Pub. Date: 21 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Translating the Curriculum: Multiculturalism into Cultural Studies by Susan Huddleston Edgerton ISBN: 0415914019 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa D. Delpit ISBN: 1565841808 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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