Identity is complex and multilayered - no person has a single, easily stated, unitary identity (Delgado, p. 9, 2001). Identities can be assigned to us, and sometimes we assert them (and often a mixture of both). They are socially-constructed. Everyone has potentially conflicting, intersecting, overlapping identities, loyalties, roles, and allegiances. What are your thoughts about this? Can you think of any other examples of how roles, identities, etc. conflict, intersect, and overlap in your own life? Which identities have been assigned to you, and which have you asserted?

Identity is complex and multilayered – no person has a single, easily stated, unitary identity (Delgado, p. 9, 2001). Identities can be assigned to us, and sometimes we assert them (and often a mixture of both). They are socially-constructed. Everyone has potentially conflicting, intersecting, overlapping identities, loyalties, roles, and allegiances. What are your thoughts about this? Can you think of any other examples of how roles, identities, etc. conflict, intersect, and overlap in your own life? Which identities have been assigned to you, and which have you asserted?

Identity is complex and multilayered – no person has a single, easily stated, unitary identity (Delgado, p. 9, 2001). Identities can be assigned to us, and sometimes we assert them (and often a mixture of both). They are socially-constructed. Everyone has potentially conflicting, intersecting, overlapping identities, loyalties, roles, and allegiances. What are your thoughts about this? Can you think of any other examples of how roles, identities, etc. conflict, intersect, and overlap in your own life? Which identities have been assigned to you, and which have you asserted?