It has been proven that race and gender play a major role in the formation of identity. According to former president of Spelman College, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum in her piece “The Complexity of Identity: Who am I?”, “The aspect of identity that is the target of others’ attentions and subsequently of our own, often is that which sets us apart as exceptional or “other” in their eyes.”.(Tatum) She prefaced this statement by mentioning an experiment that was held in a coeducational setting the called for students to complete the sentence “I am___” using any description of their choosing. She found that students belonging to a dominant, privileged social group seldom mentioned it in their answer because that portion of their identity goes without
