Freshmen tackle topic of racism
Administrators assigned summer reading to spark discussion among 2011ers
Racism is a system of advantage based on race, a combination of racial prejudice and social power. Because they benefit from this arrangement, almost all white Americans — but not their black peers — can fairly be called racist.
Or so says Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum, who delivered the freshman keynote address Sunday evening and whose book, “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race,” was mailed home to every member of the class of 2011 as mandatory summer reading.
Tatum’s visit to Yale came after...
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