In this lesson, students will explore how our complex identities shape our understanding and experience of our world. Through video interviews with a diverse range of MacArthur Fellowship recipients and an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essay “Between the World and Me,” students will map their own multiple “identities” and use the lens of Intersectionality to examine how each of these identities intersects with and influences their interactions and perceptions. Using Coates’s epistolary style as inspiration, students will share their own experience of identity and Intersectionality in an epistolary poem. This resource is part of the MacArthur Fellows Program Collection.
