Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race (Paperback), written by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, is a seminal, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism, racial identity development, and cross-racial communication in America. Originally published in 1997, a fully revised and updated 20th-anniversary edition (paperback) was released in 2017 to address contemporary racial dynamics