In the article Identity and School Adjustment: Revisiting the “Acting White” Assumption discusses important issues that many educators will encounter within the school system. Some of those issues include: Euro-centric vs. Afro-Centric cultural value systems, “acting white”, and teaching strategies for minorities. This table does a great job of describing the stages of racial identity, and helped in understanding the article in simple terms.

Stages of Racial Identity as Measured by the Racial Identity Attitude Scale

Stage	Label	Description
Pre-encounter	Eurocentric	White salience attitudes and values and identification with anti-Black stereotypes
Encounter	Transitional	Movement or transition from anti-Black attitudes
Immersion	Reactive	Afrocentrism Black salience and anti-White attitudes that represent a reactionary identification with superficial cultural icons
Internalization	Proactive	Afrocentrism An internalized and proactive Black salience identity that also acknowledges the positive aspects of other cultural traditions