Core Concepts of Workers And Diversity

1. Tatum describes identity as “complex” and made up of many different factors.  As you think of your own identity, what are the racial, gender, sexual, class, religious and other factors that have shaped it?  Do you mainly focus on one or two aspects of your identity or do you think of your identity as “complex” in real-life, everyday interactions?  Can you describe some examples of how various factors in your own identity interact with each other? Watch “The Complexity of Identity: Who am I? “
2. Have you observed or overheard any of Sue’s examples of microaggressions in your neighborhoods or schools or families?  Have you experienced them yourself?  How does the accumulation of multiple microaggressions, day after day, make the person experiencing them feel? Watch “Microaggressions in the Classroom.”
3. Harro’s model describes a “core” of the fear, ignorance, confusion, power or powerlessness that keeps people from breaking out of the cycle of their own socialization.  Can you provide personal examples (similar to Harro’s “core”) that have made it difficult for you to challenge, break out of, or change the way you were socialized?
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