Develop a short autobiography using written, visual presentation, audio, or video format, exploring your own racial, ethnic, or tribal identity. Consider these questions:
- When and how did you become aware of your racial, ethnic, or tribal identity?
- Describe a moment when your racial, ethnic, or tribal identity was important to, or took on particular meaning for, you.
- Describe a moment when your racial, ethnic, or tribal identity was important to, or took on particular meaning for, others.
- How do you benefit from your racial, ethnic, or tribal identity?
- How do you suffer or “miss out” because of your racial, ethnic, or tribal identity?
- How did your racial, ethnic, or tribal identity impact your experiences at school? In the library?
- How does your racial, ethnic, or tribal identity continue to impact your life today?
- How will this understanding of ethnic identity development help you in your own practice?
Response Guidelines
- Your Participation: Your interactions and anything you share in Yellowdig should be courteous, succinct, professional, well-written, and organized. Communicating clearly with proper grammar and punctuation will foster more and better interactions with your classmates.
- Your Post: Please post something to the community related to the content covered this week. Do not create your post as a reply to the pinned post. Instead, use Yellowdig’s Create option to start a conversation.
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Responding to Peers: As you respond to your classmates, share your professional experiences and helpful thoughts and feedback about ideas they have shared. Try to comment on those where you feel you have the most useful information to share and consider the following:
- How have your experiences resonated with their ideas?
- What can you add to their ideas, building upon the connections you have made to the material so far?
- Consider exploring the features of Yellowdig, such as your ability to embed videos and pictures, create polls and videos, use hashtags, love or like a post, and so on.