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...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...
...emissary is a student who plays hisBlackness down but also maintains his identitywith that group," Tatum said...
...Tatum, however, said she disagreed. "Academicachievement is not an exclusively white domain buta part of the well-established African tradition,"she said...