Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
Chapter 5
What is Identity and How are Identities Constructed?
Identity
Identity ? ?how we make sense of ourselves? ? Rose
How do we establish identities?? - we construct our identities through experiences, emotions connections, and rejections.
An identity is a snapshot of who we are at a point in time
Identities are fluid, constantly changing, shifting, becoming.
Identities vary across scales, and affect each other across scales.
Identities are also constructed by identifying against (defining the other and then defining ourselves as ?not that.?)
Gender?
Gender ? ?a culture?s assumptions about the differences between men and women: their ?characters,? the roles they play in society, what they represent.?