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Dec 2021
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Toget...

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Contributor(s): Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum | Walk into any racially mixed secondary school and you will see young people clustered in their own groups according to race. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum guides us through how racial identity develops, from very young children all the way to adulthood, in bl ... Show More
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