During this meeting we focused on chapters 3 and 4 in the book.

We talked about how birth circumstances to some extent define your pathways in life. In this chapter Steele discusses how Anatole Broyard, born a black man, lived his adult life as a white man. This enabled him to enjoy different opportunities than he could of had he not “passed” as a white man. According to Steele as a white man he faced different constraints, different opportunities and traveled a different pathway He was the same person, but his social identity had changed and therefore his social location… Only the conditions he faced had changed.
This led to a lively discussion among the group. We all concluded that the book brought new ideas and the issues were worth further explanation.

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