Wheaton bookgroup discusses book about race
February 2, 2000
As part of Wheaton[base ']s celebration of Black History Month, the Wheaton Bookworms selection for February is Beverly Daniel Tatum[base ']s, "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting together in the Cafeteria?"
Kirkus Reviews describes the book as an ''insightful exploration of the varieties of Americans' experience with race and racism in everyday life...a remarkably jargon-free book that is as rigorously analytical as it is refreshingly practical and drives its points home with a range of telling anecdotes.''
The author, Beverly Daniel Tatum, is dean of Mount Holyoke College as well as a professor, a psychologist in private practice, and a renowned authority on the psychology of racism. Not only has she studied the distinctive social dynamics faced by black youth educated in predominantly white environments, but since 1980, Tatum has developed a course on the psychology of racism and taught it in a variety of university settings. A mother of two, Tatum lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
The Bookworms meeting will be Wednesday, February 9 at 7 p.m. in the Cole Room of the Wallace Library.