Zoom In 17: Conversations About Race

What does race mean to you? In BAYCAT's Zoom In Episode 17: "Conversations About Race", youth find creative and critical voices to explore the idea of "race".

Through onsite youth media classes, 25 BAYCAT youth created video and Flash animation pieces about race, culture, and stereotypes.

In BAYCAT's offsite program at Mission High School, many students created deeply thoughtful personal videos exploring race and prejudice, and also a PSA that directly responded to the media's ranking of Mission High School as being one of the lowest performing schools city-wide.

Another BAYCAT crew at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School worked on a story that explores why only three African American males graduated from their school the previous year. Furthermore, our Ida B. Wells High School crew created an original song and music video about race relations in the 21st century.

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[MrHusaniBurton]

Back In The Days At Bay Cat.. I Remember Those Days.. Miss Them!

[rudeboyfinks]

I Missed going to BAYCAT

[dreamtreeENT2007]

@roodingle BAYCAT is not a school, it is a professional design company that teaches and encourages youth and young adults to learn various skills in digital media to ENHANCE what they learn on the outside. They do amazing work with other collaborators and have many students who have graduated on to college in the skills they learned there. If you need more info on things you don't know about but have opinions on you should ask for it. Don't assume by making false comments.

[roodingle]

Maybe instead of playin games and foolin around they should be concentrating on teaching kids the fundamentals that will help them become productive such as math, science etc. All I see on these Baycat videos is encouragement to play games and entertain themselves. They keep telling the kids that this is their 'moment' that they 'deserve' things, when the week is done they have nothing more than they started and feel worse about themselves. Truly condescending and the kids can see it.

[madres27]

wow my hair looks crazy