Revisiting "Self-Segregation" in the Cafeteria

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 8, 2017

Beverly Daniel Tatum, psychologist and president emerita of Spelman College and the author of the newly revised Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race (Basic Books, 2nd ed., 2017), revisits her ground-breaking 1997 study of the phenomenon of self-segregating groups of young people.

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