Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd of 250 at the Gutman Conference Center, Beverly Tatum, a clinical psychologist and associate professor in the department of psychology and education at Mount Holyoke College, said "success-oriented behavior" should not be perceived as "acting white...
...question that educators must ask is, how did academic achievement get defined as exclusively white behavior?" said Tatum. "What in the curriculum reinforces the [idea] that academic excellence is an exclusively white domain...
...Tatum said including multiculturalism in a school's curriculum would strengthen the racial identity of African-American students and increase the cultural awareness of white students. "[Black students] will learn to think of themselves as potential agents of change, not as victims," she said...
...Tatum cited a case study in which a Blackstudent pursued a "racelessnessstrategy"--de-emphasizing the fact that he isBlack--but then switched to the alternativestrategy of being an "emissary...
...core of the Crimson is Captain Karin Swartz, junior Alais Griffin, sophomore Jen Kearney and sophomore Tatum Simon, who've kept Harvard competitive all season...