ABSTRACT
In a series of interviews with Black women about everyday racism, one of them offered the following story about a high school in the United States:
When I came into high school I started off in the very lowest tracks. … I think that generally, in this country, we track Black children in the lower tracks so that they do not have opportunities to go to college. However, I do not think that [my case] was a result of racism, because both the teachers and the headmaster that I had … [gave me] a lot of encouragement and support to reach my potential so that by the time I was a junior in high school I was back on the college preparatory track.
(Essed, 1991, protocol C9)