1. Warm-up: Which aspect of Rashid's identity do you will be most important at Chelsea: Race; Gender; or Social Class? Why?
2. Which aspect of your identity: Race/Ethnicity, Class, Education, Gender do you think plays the greatest roll in who you are or how you are seen? After doing the circles Self Awareness Exercise, write a page about which aspect of you exerts the most importance on you.
3. Carefully read the opening two quotes to the novel, The Fall of Rome. What do they mean? What does the Henry Louis Gates quote mean? What does it mean to be fissured? Substitute your own ethnicity where it says Black Americans.
4. Based on #3, construct an Identity Map. An Identity Map is creative Visual representation of all of the fissures and groups and factions in your race or ethnicity. You are to clearly identify your race and at least 15 different fissures.
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