{"id":1740,"date":"2013-10-20T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2013-10-20T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T19:55:00","slug":"skin-deep-tammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/2013\/10\/20\/skin-deep-tammy\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin Deep- Tammy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elise Ogden<\/p>\n

FYSM Exercise E<\/p>\n

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In the film Skin Deep<\/i>, Tammy, the white student at Texas A&M, shows key signs of the pseudo-independent stage of white racial development. According to Beverly Tatum, author of \u201cWhy Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria?\u201d<\/i>, in the pseudo-independent stage \u201cthe pseudo-independent individual has an intellectual understanding of racism as a system of advantage, but doesn\u2019t quite know what to do about it. Self-conscious and guilty about one\u2019s own Whiteness, the individual often desires to escape it by associating with people of color\u201d (Tatum 106). In Skin Deep<\/i>, Tammy discusses how she tries to reach out to the African American community at Texas A&M: \u201cI wanted to have more contact with the African American students on our campus\u2026 so I joined black awareness committee for the social thing because right now my group of friends isn\u2019t very diverse and I felt like maybe I would take the first step and maybe they would join some of ours [organizations]\u201d (20:38-21:00). Like Tatum\u2019s pseudo-independent individual, she wanted to be able to understand the African American community at her school. After the conference, Tammy acknowledges the advantages she receives because she is white: \u201cI\u2019ve come to realize that if I work hard for something I\u2019m assured most of the time that I\u2019m gonna get it\u2026 I\u2019ve come to realize that for some other cultures in our society that’s not true a lot of the time and they have to work twice as hard and there\u2019s people there telling them that they can\u2019t do that\u201d (32:02-32:25). Later, when she talks to Dane, she tells him that although creating a dialogue about race is difficult, it\u2019s necessary because \u201cif you\u2019re not trying to make the change then you\u2019re just accepting it and letting it go on.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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Tammy wants to change the system, and she is trying to convince others of that fact. Based on the film, Tammy is in the pseudo-independent stage of her racial development. <\/i><\/p>\n

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Works Cited<\/b><\/p>\n

Reid, Frances, Sharon Wood, Sarah Cahill, Michael Chin, Stephen McCarthy, Deborah Hoffmann,\u00a0and Mary Watkins.\u00a0Skin Deep<\/i>. Berkeley, CA: Iris Films, 1995.<\/p>\n

Tatum, Beverly D.\u00a0“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: And Other Conversations\u00a0<\/i>About Race<\/i>. New York: BasicBooks, 1999. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elise Ogden FYSM Exercise E   In the film Skin Deep, Tammy, the white student at Texas A&M, shows key signs of the pseudo-independent stage of white racial development. According to Beverly Tatum, author of \u201cWhy Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria?\u201d, in the pseudo-independent stage \u201cthe pseudo-independent individual has an … Continue reading Skin Deep- Tammy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}