Context, Bigotry and Privilege | Amanda Taylor | TEDxTheMastersSchool

“Context, Bigotry and Privilege” — Amanda's talk will explore the various intersections of race and power within different contexts. The primary focus will be on Jamaica and the United States. Field research and personal accounts will be interwoven into this talk.

“Whiteness is simply an abstraction,” Amanda Taylor argues. The 18-year-old international student from Kingston, Jamaica moved to Dobbs Ferry, NY to study in August 2015. In her talk, she tackles privilege from a different lens, exploring the ever-pervasive nature of a dominant norm that structures social encounters in order to illustrate how it relates to the way people around the world are perceived to be racially different.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx