Aleichia Williams’ experience, detailed in “Too Latina to be Black, Too Black to be Latina” made me further understand the topic of identity politics because her story entails the experiences many of us, mixed individuals, go through. Her identity crisis is directly affected by the politics of societal beliefs and practices. The segregation in her school made her more aware of her racial differences and especially her racial confusion. These politics are what led her to understand her juxtaposition in society and made her have to decide what she identified with. Alicia Garza’s “The Power of Identity Politics” gives a more thorough and direct breakdown of the meaning of this term “identity politics” and entailed how powerful it is by choosing an example from modern day with Donald Trump’s presidency. A topic I would like to explore and discuss would be the learning of gender in children, specifically through the media, and how that psychologically affects them as adults and construes it as our “norm” throughout our lives. I feel this topic is really important because it gets down to the “beginning” of the learning of gender, which I believe to be roles and behaviors we learn as children. In trying to terminate the concept or social construct of gender as adults, we must learn and understand how we are taught these behaviors to begin with, so as to rid them from our children when we begin to raise them.