Such devaluation, he says, forces black students to try to learn in an environment expecting the worst in them. If you're a black person, the assumption is someone let you in the back door. These stories rattle white participants. Hibbard knows he's been lucky. But he's troubled that others had to struggle against expectations of failure.
Race matters All eyes lock onto the TV screen, where a discussion of race unfolds.
Then Hibbard speaks up. At least in my family, the thinking is that if you're not making it, you haven't tried hard enough. Sharing tears Something has been bothering Landrecht all week, she says right away. She has been thinking about a comment made by an African American classmate who learned as a child that there were advantages to being white. Later, she would explain.