Color Bind
It's 12:45 p.m. on an average Tuesday, and lunch is in full swing at Commons Dining Hall. "There's usually two or three black tables," says one student. "They're hard not to miss." Sure enough, a quick stroll reveals several tables entirely of black students, others entirely of white students, another of mostly Asian students, and one comprised of students speaking Spanish.
As Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum writes in her 1997 book on racial identity, aptly titled "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?", the prototypical mixed high school cafeteria features "an...
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