CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Epigraph
6. Prologue “Why Are All the Black Kids Still Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations About Race in the Twenty-First Century
7. Introduction A Psychologist’s Perspective
8. PART I A Definition of Terms
9. 1 Defining Racism
   “Can we talk?”
10. 2 The Complexity of Identity
    “Who am I?”
11. PART II Understanding Blackness in a White Context
12. 3 The Early Years
    “Is my skin brown because I drink chocolate milk?”
13. 4 Identity Development in Adolescence
    “Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?”
14. 5 Racial Identity in Adulthood
    “Still a work in progress…”
15. PART III Understanding Whiteness in a White Context
16. 6 The Development of White Identity
    “I’m not ethnic, I’m just normal.”
17. 7 White Identity, Affirmative Action, and Color-Blind Racial Ideology
    “Affirmative action was nice. It had its time. Its time is over.”
18. PART IV Beyond Black and White
19. 8 Critical Issues in Latinx, Native, Asian and Pacific Islander, and Middle Eastern / North African Identity Development
    “There’s more than just Black and White, you know.”
20. 9 Identity Development in Multiracial Families
    “But don’t the children suffer?”
21. PART V Breaking the Silence
22. 10 Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue
    “We were struggling for the words.”
23. Epilogue: Signs of Hope, Sites of Progress
24. Acknowledgments
25. About the Author
26. More Praise for Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
27. Bibliography
28. Notes
29. Index