In conversation with Professor Beverly Tatum and Professor Julie Sanders

Join emeritus President Beverly Daniel Tatum in conversation with Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost Professor Julie Sanders to discuss her New York Times bestselling book, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, now published in the UK for the first time by Penguin.

This will be an in-person event, from 17.30-19.00 on Monday 15th November, in the Armstrong Building, room 2.98, Newcastle University.

Beverly Daniel Tatum is a renowned Professor of Psychology whose work has revolutionised conversations about the psychology of race. Her first book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? has been a mainstay of anti-racist bookshelves since 1997. Substantially revised and updated in 2017, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of race. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? explains how racial identity develops, from very young children all the way to adulthood, in black families, white families, and mixed race families, and helps us understand what we can do to break the silence, have better conversations with our children and with each other about race, and build a better world.

A thought-leader in higher education, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum is president emerita of Spelman College. She was the 2013 recipient of the Carnegie Academic Leadership Award and the 2014 recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology. Dr. Tatum holds a B.A. degree in psychology from Wesleyan University, a M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from University of Michigan, and a M.A. in Religious Studies from Hartford Seminary.

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