When do children begin to notice the differences between themselves and their peers? In racially mixed schools you will often times see children of diverse racial boundaries interact with one another without any problems. Once the students enter Junior High they begin to have more social interactions and segregation begins to occur. Groups amongst the teens begin to form and race may play apart in which group they end up in. Another main reason these groups begin to form is because of puberty. “As children enter adolescence, they begin to explore the

After winning the Masters Tiger Woods was embraced as the modern day Jackie Robinson breaking new barriers and establishing himself as one of today’s greatest golfers. But in an unthinkable act Woods declared that he was not black and suddenly he was involved in a blistering debate. Woods explained to the media that he used to consider himself “Cablinasian” as a “self-coined acronym for his one-eighth Caucasian, one-fourth African American, one-eighth American Indian, one fourth Thai, and one-fourth Chinese heritage-wittingly or not, had become the champion of an estimated 2 million Americans of mixed parentage seeking sociopolitical acceptance” (Scott311). This is just another example of how much emphasis America puts on categorizing people and how its’ obsession with race. We tend to categorize people by their appearance, not by their biological background, because that is the most obvious way to “read people”. “We do construct race, ethnicity, and gender, and its multiplicity of meanings and ideas visually, not only through a person’s skin, but what the wear, how they walk, how tall or short they are” (Lewin 254

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Becoming America, American Indian, II” Colombian, African Americans, Jackie Robinson, Taboo” Gladwell, Tiger Woods, African American, labeling segregation, stereotyping labeling, begin form, stereotyping labeling segregation, omi 281,