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cjrl-13015	Daniel Kees	Defanging Diversity	2024	63	.pdf	application/pdf	34925	1290	46	During a pre-orientation event for Black students at Tufts University in the mid-1990s, Greer recalled one session in which students were asked to close their eyes and raise their hands if their parents had told them not to associate with “[B]lack” students upon their arrival to Tufts. What initially seemed an odd question to Greer—in a room full of Black kids—made sense when she opened her eyes and discovered “everyone’s hands were raised except for the [six] [B]lack Americans” because the rest of her peers in the room were either Black immigrants or the children of Black immigrants, Greer recalls.98 Greer goes on to recount other differences between what she terms “JBs” or “just [B]lacks” (i.e., non- immigrant or non-immigrant-descended Black people) and these other students, such as the various affinity groups catering to, for example, students of African or Caribbean origin (in addition to the general Black student union).99 Of course, Black students in these groups sometimes viewed themselves as one community, but at other times, these separate identities predominated, which is not a phenomenon unique to Tufts or any university for that matter.100 Such differences, when highlighted, can be a 95	cache/cjrl-13015.pdf	txt/cjrl-13015.txt