ENGL1063 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Beverly Daniel Tatum, Peer Pressure
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Why are all the black kids sitting together? by beverly daniel tatum. She is concerned with the ways schools, in particularly high school, seem to be places where racial segregation and old patterns prevail. Appeals to our emotion: relates issue to her own child, when adults meet david, they don"t say, gee you"re black for your age! (bottom of p. 360, race is not completely understood by children. It illustrates how black boys are often devalued and underestimated at a young age. o. She describes how this can tarnish their confidence and make them feel isolated from the world. o. In her opening, she uses the autobiography of malcolm x as a prime example of racial identity development. o. By incorporating this as a source she has not only provided a historical example of racism, but she has offered a true story of discrimination to an inspirational figure that has encountered racism. o.
