Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation

by Tatum, Beverly; Perry, Theresa

• ISBN13: 9780807032855
• ISBN10: 0807032859
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

Major reflections on race and schools-by the best-selling author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Beverly Daniel Tatum emerged as a major commentator on race in America in 1997 with "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?," a book that changed the way many people think about racial identity and about the conversation about race in schools. Can We Talk about Race?, Tatum's first book in a decade, argues that that conversation is even more urgent today. Tatum, now president of Spelman College, begins with a warning call. A self-described "integration baby"-she was born in 1954-Tatum takes stock of the evidence of the increasing and underreported resegregation of American schools, even over the past decade.

Author Biography

Beverly Daniel Tatum is author of "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Assimilation Blues. She is currently president of Spelman College in Atlanta, where she lives with her husband.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Can We Talk about Race?	p. ix
The Resegregation of Our Schools and the Affirmation of Identity	p. 1
Connecting the Dots: How Race in America's Classrooms Affects Achievement	p. 39
"What Kind of Friendship Is That?": The Search for Authenticity, Mutuality, and Social Transformation in Cross-Racial Relationships	p. 83
In Search of Wisdom: Higher Education for a Changing Democracy	p. 105
Afterword	p. 127
Acknowledgments	p. 133
Notes	p. 135
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