What Awaits Black Children When They Return to School

Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of ‘Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?’ on race and identity in adolescence

Sarah Begley
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11 min readJun 24, 2020

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It’s been more than 20 years since Beverly Daniel Tatum’s Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? first hit shelves, but this month…

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Sarah Begley
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Director at Medium working with authors and books. Formerly a staff writer and editor at Time.