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Reading
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Donald Hall's "Poem with One Fact" begins with the striking line, "At pet stores in Detroit, you can buy/ frozen rats/for seventy-five cents apiece, to feed/ your pet boa constrictor." From this…
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Identity and Community
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- How do we define who we are?
- How has my family or background shaped who I am?
- What do people gain or lose from joining a group or a community?
- What makes a community strong? What makes it weak?
- To what extent does your identity determine the communities you join?
- Is your sense of individual identity ever in conflict with your community? How?
- How do you understand your own identity? How does it relate to the communities you are a part of?
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Reading
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Born in Malacca, Malaysia in 1944, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim was raised by her Chinese father and emigrated to the U.S. as a young woman. The author of several books of poetry, short…
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Cultural Identity and Difference: Exclusion and Belonging
Resources
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Andrew Moodie’s Story of Belonging - Otherness
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Video
Overview
Canadian actor and playwright, Andrew Moodie discusses the complex feelings of belonging, difference, and otherness he experiences as a child of Jamaican immigrants in Canada. Moodie relates how he was…
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Campus Conversation on Identity Across Racial and Sexual Differences
Highlights
The discussion was organic and the conversation really flowed from the participants. I think at least half of the individuals got into their own personal identities/struggles with their identities. Also,…