Come up with 5 essential questions you can ask about identity in light of your artist's work and 5 key concepts about identity that are implicated by the questions.

Essential Questions:

1. How does being a minority (even in a culture that claims to be "accepting" of all) shape identity?
2. How does an individual deal with racist events/people/situations that occur beyond their control?
3. How can an individual take these events and turn them into art to make change?
4. How do these situations/events/people shape our identity?
5. Can an artist create pieces like this but also make pieces that pridefully show their heritage/culture/ identity as an Asian American? Or is it just one or the other?


Key Concepts:

1.Clearly other people's actions will affect someone's identity no matter where the person lives, or how they feel about themselves/want to be affected by others.
2. Situations or people like this cannot hold a person back from living open, freely and proudly of who they are. Take what occurs around you (especailly stuff one cannot control) and make art in defiance of it. Allow your true identity to show above it all.
3. Here, we see the artist using the racist imagery in order to lessen the sting when it comes from other people. In other words, they are using it themselves to diffuse the effects it has when others use it, which will eventually make what other people say completely meaningless.
4. When dealing with issues of race and racism it is clear that a person can either stand proud against those struggles or become ashamed of who they are.
5. This is one I just don't have an answer for. But maybe, creating pieces like this is also showing pride in the artist's identity as well just because of what he's trying to do with them.