https://www.quakerranter.org/black-with-a-capital-b/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.quakerranter.org/black-with-a-capital-b/#comment-947762 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:22:00 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=57595#comment-947762 I’m an elementary school librarian at a school where more than 70% of our students are African American, and they are struggling with what to call themselves. Kids are coming to the same school with different information and strong feelings from home. Some kids want to be called black, and others consider it insulting. Likewise, some of the more woke kids are trying to figure out where color fits into their larger life. My daughter, a fifth grader at this school, told me that one of her classmates asked for a caucasian piece of paper. I appreciate the kid’s attempt at sophistication, even if she did have to explain to several kids of varying skin hues what that meant. As for myself (middle age, middle class white lady), I try to stay away from using racial identity terms at school at all, but I wonder if that further complicates the problem.

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