Mixed Race in Non-Post-Racial America | Caty Borum Chattoo & Leena Jayaswal | TEDxAmericanUniversity
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Caty Borum Chattoo and Leena Jayaswal are both faculty members at American University’s School of Communication. When they first met, they bonded over their mutual desire to better understand their mixed-race children. Here they tell the story behind their project on Mixed Race Identity in Non-Post-Racial America. Their journey brought them around the country, and taught them unexpected lessons. Caty Borum Chattoo is Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI), an innovation lab and research center at American University that creates, showcases and studies media designed for social change; and Executive in Residence at the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C. She is an award-winning communication strategist and documentary film/TV producer working at the intersection of social-change communication, research, documentary and entertainment storytelling.
Borum Chattoo’s social justice documentaries have aired internationally and nationally on Netflix, the Sundance Channel, Pivot, NDTV (India), PBS World, Link TV, KCET, DirectTV and theatrically. She has produced two documentary feature films (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price and The After Party), a TV documentary and transmedia series (Stand Up Planet, starring Hasan Minhaj from “The Daily Show”), a multi-part documentary TV series focused on global poverty (ViewChange), a seven-part environmental justice documentary TV series (Sierra Club Chronicles), and PSA campaigns designed for social change on issues ranging from global poverty to climate change to HIV.
Leena Jayaswal is an award-winning photographer and documentarian with deep expertise and interest in issues that intersect race, representation and identity. Her films have been broadcast throughout the country on PBS affiliates through National Educational Telecommunications Association, and through New Day Films. She was awarded the prestigious Gracie Allen Award from the American Women in Radio and Television. Her work has been featured in critical film festivals and newspapers for the Indian diaspora. Her award wining photography has been nationally recognized in galleries around the country, with solo shows at the International Visions Gallery and Gandhi Memorial Center in Washington, D.C. She has worked with famed photographer, Mary Ellen Mark. Jayaswal is a Professor in the Film and Media Arts Division of the School of Communication at American University. She is the director of the photography concentration. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
This was a good ted talk. It should have more views.
"Should?" Really? It has as many as it has. There is no "should." Did you SHARE it?
Very worthwhile. I have been reading Susan Neiman's "Learning From the Germans", about how we must all deal with our history. It was a tough book, written for Americans, but very relevant to Canadians watching the news about the Indigenous residential schools. So it was a relaxing treat to watch the two of you help map out how we are going to navigate a post-racial multi-ethnic future. A big proportion of our friends and neighbors and family are mixed and comfortable with that identity. My prediction: twenty years from now, the term "white" will have joined other historic racial and ethnic labels that we now find impolite and distasteful. Again, thanks for the important work you are doing.
Sounds like a worthwhile book, thanks for sharing it! I've added it to my must-read list.
I appreciate the talk for this video. I want to challenge the producers, of this videos and say that I am seeing is the reinforcement of the narrative that "mixed" = White + other race. I also see that discussions like this often times take place to be directed towards a predominately white audience and perspective. I understand that the purpose was to create greater understanding of what is to be mixed but, I hope we can understand that the world, is much bigger than the way than it is seen by white people. As someone who is mixed and not white, it can be very alienating for people such as myself who are constantly exposed to material like this, as if our experiences don't matter. It's something I hope we can get to more evolved understanding that the world will not change if we continue to peddle narratives likes these to make them more digestible and "safe" for a white audience there is some much truth that gets lost in the an otherwise beautiful narrative.
I agree that too much underlining being mixed about white and coloured is not according to reality myself being mixed of mediterranean and asian ancestry.
Honestly a mixed race person shouldn't wait and expect monoracial people to understanding what we go through. Speak for yourself and have your own voice. Be extroverted about everything.
Very good talk. Thank you, ladies.
Very good talk ladies!
Good talk, ladies!
This doesn't sound like mix race, but mix race IMMIGRANTS in the USA were race tied to identity is different globally. I don't like speaking of mixed race people as one group bc it is more than their mixture that defines them.
This was is confusing. I think what I'm hearing is coming from a place of love but the message or the lessons is not clear. I hear interpretations being taking at face value almost. I'm gonna have to rewatch a few times, circle back.
Good one.
RACE ? we are one race... the human race, but, as an animal classification Humans are different species of the same animal, all equal.
They mean "race" in it's sociological meaning since race has no biological meaning.
There kids WILL BE CONFUSED
I feel sorry for the boys .
My brother and sister are biracial and they struggle with fitting in .
Always remember when the tiger and the lion mate , they make the liger . The liger is then abandoned and left alone in nature !!
Let that sink in !!!!!
Humans Aren’t different species tho.
Better analogy would be a Bengal Tiger mating with a Siberian Tiger - you still end up with a Tiger
Sorry but you are talking so much BS we are all part of the same race the human race. We only have skin colour due to an evolutionary adaptation to the sun. I have a mixed raced child who knows both her Irish heritage and her bajan heritage. What makes them confused is people like you talking complete and utter nonsense about race. It's actually evolutionary advantageous to have diverse genetics. Mixed raced people have also been found to be more intelligent and taller than offspring of mono cultures.
We’re not animals.
No, no, no.... society is confused. Your brother and sister are just sick of being categorized. They know who/what they are.