Title: Lecture: (CU1 M1) Identity
Course: SkillsCom HDFS 201 16.0 > Section: Credit Unit 1 Module 1 - Theoretical Perspectives

- Complexity of Identity
- What Is a Family?

Now that you have thought about your sense of self through the writing exercise you just completed, perhaps you realize now that answering the question of “Who am I?” is not as easy as it first seems. The following reading explores the complexity of this question.

Read Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum, 2003. of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (eBook).

Read the following in "Public and Private Families: An Introduction." (eText)

Chapter 1: Public and Private Families

- "Introduction: Looking Forward," pages 4-5
- "Marriage and Individualism," pages 6-9
- "What is a Family?," pages 9-17

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