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From 1960 Sit-ins to Today:
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How can having a strong sense
o f racial identity serve as a buffer
against racism?
Part of the invisibility syndrome
is developed out of having a con­
flicted identity; one person has a
perception of you, and others have
another. If young kids think they're
bad, but they're not, and they get
treated that way they figure they
might as well act like a bad kid. They
get confi icted about how to be good.
That can also happen in terms of
racial identity. What is the appropri­
ate way to be for someone of Afri­
can American descent? A lot of
afterschool programs foster char­
acter development in trying to an­
chor social identity in the cultural
values of African and African Ameri­
can traditions believing that the
person with a strong sense of his­
tory and cultural legacy will give
them the necessary resilience and
fortitude to deal with life challenges.
What do we have to optimistic
abou t? Where have we m ade
progress?
We certainly have made progress
in areas where I think that institu­
tions are trying to be responsive to
diversity issues. We're a long way
from the goal, but there is some
encouragement that there is some
discussion o f these issues both
public and private, and there are
actual things we can point to in
terms of accomplishments. How­
ever, we seem to go from one gen­
eration to the next generation with a
lot of problems around the youth,
specifically challenges around edu­
cation, and the whole issue of eq­
uity and education. I know we had
Brown v. the Board of Education
that was supposed to end segrega­
tion in the school system , but
schools remain de facto segregated.
You have a pretty interesting
background. Has that influenced
you r work?
Yes, because that has all been
generated by a civil rights legacy.
Throughout my life I've been very
much interested in social justice
equity, not only global, but specifi­
cally for people of African descent.
During the Jim Crow era, rac­
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ism was very overt, but now it's
much more subtle. What sort o f
challenges does this present to
black parents?
Parents need to become more
aware of the subtleties of racism and
institutional racism, particularly in
terms of policies with education, and
if neighborhood schools are not
achieving goals. So parenting is be­
ing part of school policy. More par­
ent involvement really should be a
central value of family. One of the
things I've written about is the impor­
tance of family in conveying to chil­
dren values and the necessity of hav­
ing some sort of knowledge of the
social and cultural history of people
of African descent in this country.
You said we don't have the
metrics to fully assess the achieve­
ment gap. What do you mean by
that?
Well, we have the metrics in terms
o f tests for specific content areas,
like measuring language achieve­
ment. We don't have sufficient tests
to understand the social and emo­
tional well being of aparticular child
relative to their capacity to learn.
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