Allegories on race and racism | Camara Jones | TEDxEmory
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Dr. Camara Jones shares four allegories on “race” and racism. She hopes that these "telling stories" empower you to do something different, and that you will remember them and pass them on.
Dr. Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She seeks to broaden the national health debate to include not only universal access to high quality health care, but also attention to the social determinants of health (including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism).
As a methodologist, she has developed new methods for comparing full distributions of data, rather than simply comparing means or proportions, in order to investigate population-level risk factors and propose population-level interventions.
As a social epidemiologist, her work on "race"-associated differences in health outcomes goes beyond documenting those differences to vigorously investigating the structural causes of the differences.
As a teacher, her allegories on "race" and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many Americans to understand or discuss. She hopes through her work to initiate a national conversation on racism that will eventually lead to a National Campaign Against Racism.
Dr. Jones was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1994 to 2000, and a Medical Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2000 to 2013. She received her BA in Molecular Biology from Wellesley College, her MD from the Stanford University School of Medicine, and both her Master of Public Health and her PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She also completed residency training in both General Preventive Medicine (Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health) and Family Practice (Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital).
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I wonder if she realized at the time that this talk is so powerful that it will be assigned to students for homework! I am a graduate student now and I have had the pleasure of getting to review this video as even my professors recognize how strong her teachings are from her.
@fati3339
Жыл бұрын
literally got this assigned
@ayethirikyaw9262
Жыл бұрын
Yes same.
@AnaSantos-nv1bo
Жыл бұрын
I'm watching it now for homework!
@Junksaint
Жыл бұрын
Yep lol very insightful
@nyasiaconstantine7998
9 ай бұрын
I'm actually in the middle of doing an assignment on this video lol
Excellent use of allegories to teach about racism and health. If you ever get the opportunity to hear/see Dr. Camara Jones in person, I highly recommend it.
@alittleredhen
4 жыл бұрын
Pleased Dr. Jones speaking in Portland January 2020. Interested to learn where her ideas are now.
Blessed enough to work with Dr. Jones everyday. Gardner's Tale and The Cliff Analogy...I could listen to again and again and again. She's such a jewel to America.
one of my most favorite ted talks. i keep coming back to watch every once in a while. I'm thankful for dr. jones for sharing this
I had the great pleasure to hear Dr. Jones speak at the Grantmakers in Health Conference in Austin, TX last week. She is brilliant!!
Just incredible. Dr. Jones is a national treasure. I would have been there standing up cheering. You go, Dr. Jones!
The way she explained it makes so much sense! You really broke it down and made it simple while still keeping it educational and complex
Dr. Camara Jones is amazing in interpreting allegories in categories for conceivable applications for action.
Thank you Dr Camara Jones for sharing your art and helping us to act to change whats around us.
Powerful allegories and guidance for understanding and dealing with racism. Thanks!
Thoroughly enjoyed this. The allegories make this topic palatable for a wider audience. Sharing with undergraduates, graduates and others. thank you very much!!
"The gardener may go to her grave preferring red over pink...but her children will not grow up with that attitude and will know that the flowers are equally beautiful."
@katiesears9833
3 жыл бұрын
@Destiny Matthews- I found this statement profound as well. Thank you for capturing it in direct quotation.
Really excellent. Helps a lot to get us outside of ourselves and look at the situation outside of our mostly unconscious judgments.
Positively brilliant. Thank you, Dr. Jones & Emory.
what amazing and insightful analogies that puts things into perspective!! It always bugged me when people say that racism is a myth and everyone has equal opportunities, that simply isn't true ! You explained it so well
Thank you for posting this, TEDx Talks.
A lovely person with a wonderful presentation. I loved it and found it very helpful in illustrating such a complex topic. The stories were so well done. I appreciate the path she outlined for all of us to participate in the betterment of our society. Loved it all.
Dear Camara, brilliant as always!! Thank you for your work!
I want to share this with everyone I know. Outstanding perspective Dr Jones 💗
Love this use of 'allegories' about racism, privilege and other isms.Thank you!
Wow she is brilliant. Here allegories are descriptively intriguing, and very enticing to listen to. I must commend her on her presenting the truth in a fixable way. Now all we need to do is implement what she said. Oh that we would, turn the conveyer belt around.
Wonderful! Thanks to women like Dr. Jones to explain complex ideas! Very powerful.
This is one of the best Ted talks I have ever seen. so much content packed into 20 minutes!
The only scenario in which I would give this video a thumbs down is due to the fact it's only 20-something minutes....I could listen to her for days! Captivating story-(allegory)telling, compelling message, and beautiful/gentle call to action. Bravo!
Excellent. What a wonderful way to present the concepts of race & racism.
Wow, this is the best explanation of racism I've heard. Must share!
I really enjoyed watching this program. I was able to learn a lot of things about race and racism and about many other subjects that were touched upon on this broadcast. we should all learn to better ourselves in every aspect of our lives.
Well spoken and good conversation
This is the best example of explaining racism that I have ever seen! Brilliant ☺
75% single family households , disproportionate criminality, dropping out of school and the other pathologies of single parent households. These are factors in inequality as well.
@annsheridan12
2 жыл бұрын
The proportion of single parent households in a community predicts the rate of violent crime and burglary but the communities poverty level does not
This is so good! Thank you!
Amazing allegorical usage. I will be using this to train in the future!
Dr. David Williams recommended this video. Dr. Williams was a panel member for the report launch First Peoples, Second Class Treatment: The role of racism in thehealth and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada in Toronto, February 3, 2015.
Spectacular clarity and teaching. A wonderful way of thinking of complex problems to enhance our understanding of bias and racism.
This is a brilliant teaching - thank you!
Brilliant allegories. Thank you!
Wow, Camara's ability to explain complex issues in a simple way is amazing. I will be doing a deep dive into her work.
Brilliant! Thank you, Dr. Jones
Deep! Very well explained. Brilliant!
I agree what she said, but I would add : 1) There surely is a category (or subcategory) called 'post-institutionalized'. This means that even when the laws and policies have been revoked, you still have the aftermath of those laws/policies. This can be in the form of people living in ghettos, having lower education level in your family, fewer role models, etc. 2) The inherit property of capitalism - people who have more wealth are very hard/impossible to catch up with. The families that are rich get the benefits anyway. To have equality in outcome - ie wealthy immigrants, minorities - takes generations of accumulation.
@reginarobertkrystyn
9 жыл бұрын
Antropovich You need to start that dissertation!
@SheaBaby31
6 жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you for this comment.
@drasco61084
5 жыл бұрын
That's what she's talking about with the generations of oppression of the pink flowers. It's not just a matter of simply stop seeing the pink flowers as worth less, or simply one thing or another, but a multifaceted approach. You have to enrich the soil, remove the rocks, etc. So in the real life USA for example it might be housing assistance for people of color like what only white people had access to after WWII to actually build wealth and not just rent, changes in law enforcement and schools, community empowerment, and even efforts to create more sustainable society, since capitalism isn't sustainable.
@garyhost1830
5 жыл бұрын
80% of millionaires are first generation rich. Ie if your not one of these you can be.... but probably never will be by continually having the victim mentality. Anyway merry Christmas. I'm watching this trying to expand my knowledge why such a large gap between blacks and whites. So far it seem largely culture based.
@dionnad.d.1769
4 ай бұрын
Yes, that's the Pink & Red Flower Garden analogy. The ghetto and poor school is the rocky soil. The fertile soil for the red roses and gardener supplying it is part of capitalism.
I love this!
So proud to see a Wellesley classmate making such a profound difference in the world.
Dr. Jones is so brilliant! Bravo!
@billyramirezhealthybydesig5188
2 жыл бұрын
Howso?
this was great! Thank you so much! You are a very special person!!!
Thank you for these allegories which will help me and others understand racism better.
She is very good and right on point we need more people like her for some people that Hits a nerve truth of course always does Amen
This lady knows how to teach it. Fantastic.
That was amazing, she barely even breathed when she was talking lmaooo. She is my new obsession!!!
such a good analogy! Really good talk!
Dr. Camara Jones is the G.O.A.T! I just wish the audio quality was better on this one...
Insightful and informative
Thanks for this Ms Camara Jones
Sister-woman recently gave a mind-expanding keynote speech at the 2023 Commencement Ceremony for the School of Health Sciences at Georgetown University in Washington, DC (posted on KZread).
Great speech!
Also - we had a question about how to get “red seeds” that don’t seem to benefit from the “well loved planter” to better understand how the Gardeners Tale allegory accounts for them - May need to be reminded that some red seeds may have ended up in the pink seed planter - by the gardener, the wind or by birds… in any case, should these “red seeds” be mad at the pink seeds? Or the gardener? Or the researchers? Or…?
Love her!
Watching this at 2x speed really makes her sound as crazy as she is
Good explaination
Very useful
Her creativity is inspiring
This is truly amazing!!
Excellent
amazing
gosto muito dos video
I wanna cry! She's a gem.
wow no comments .. what jones is saying is the most interesting take on racism. scientific and internal how racism works.
That was amazing
14:16
Brilliant!! 💝💝
This is incredible
Awesome!!!
My new role model
Interesting.
I would add, we need social science research because in many cases the causes and effective solutions for racial disparities are likely complex.
I love these talks. But as someone who is apart of the oppressed group, I don't need them. Can we actually DO something about institutionalized racism already?
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Acknowledged.
Very articulately presented, intelligently perceived and thoughtfully presented nonsense.
@laurenjamieson8411
4 жыл бұрын
I agree. It is total nonsense.
@allisonjonesphelps2860
4 жыл бұрын
Why do you believe it is nonsense? (no sarcasm here - genuinely curious)
@straighttalking2090
4 жыл бұрын
@@allisonjonesphelps2860 I think it's nonsense because she sets up the position that race is not biological and uses flowery allegories to back up her preposition that has little to do with biology. Allegories fall apart when you go into detail (synonyms for the word include 'myth' 'parable' 'fable'). To compare moths with humans for example is to compare an order of one phylum with a species of another.. very vague or misleading when the issue is about light. The problem for me is that she conflates racism and biological race - commendable for fighting against the former, lamentable for its irrelevance to a discussion on biological race - a reality about which she is in denial.
@q_q123
Жыл бұрын
@@straighttalking2090 Race is a social construct
Great speech! Maybe I'm jinxing it but In B4 the "what a race trader, all these people do is talk about race...maybe if they weren't so criminal and baby daddy, crack,ect", and the obligatory "i hate naaaggers" guy that pollutes every other youtube discussion that even peripherally mentions race even in absence of the -ism. There I got it, it's on record now
STRAIGHT FACTS
It was a bit confusing for me. I wish Dr. Camara would have given specific examples using human interactions.
@MansaHere
7 жыл бұрын
You should read her paper on the theoretical framework for the three levels of racism and the Gardener's Tale. She includes some brief examples of the three levels on pages 1212-1213 (up to the 'Levels of Racism: A Gardener's Tale' header on page 1213.) Here's the link: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1446334/pdf/10936998.pdf
I enjoy what she is saying but she needs to slow down a little so her words are more concise. Sounds like she's spraying her words and it's a little hard to comprehend.
Very nice description of racism..
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you're right racism doesn't exist because being of A different race is saying that you're not part of the human race and it a person is a different species I find it insulting dogs are all part of the canine family and no matter what breed they are they are all part of the canine and there's no mistaking it there's the animal kingdom and there's cats and dogs and a cat is a different species than a dog and just because someone has a cultural or an ethnic background doesn't mean that they're different species and if one loses the empathy for another person or another ethnic or cultural background that hasn't suffered the same in prejudices All Nations and all country have enslaved their own people at one time or another and making it that just because of once ethnic background that they're Superior in that understanding is arrogance to say the least
Now that you know - what will you do about it?
At 2:42min what a beautiful thought, but on the other hand there is the NBA. And I bet with every Professor of Sociology that in the top three of the next marathon run there are Kenians, Erithreans, at least they are black. 1 Dollar against 1000 well meant, but false words.
Probably a lovely person but that's 20 minutes of my life that I will regrettably never get back...
This chick talked about an episode she had in California when she went out to eat with some friends. In the story, she clearly says that the hour was extremely late and they were done studying, so they went into town to get some food. While she was eating, she noticed that the restaurant sign said closed. And she took this as striking evidence of racism. I guess it never occurred to her that they made it in the restaurant just before it closed, and the restaurant was trying to get rid of some food on late minute customers. But of course, everything she notices is evidence of racism racism racism racism. I think this chick has a fundamental misunderstanding of how restaurants work, And how businesses use time to determine when they open and close.
Can someone give me an example of someone whose wasted their entire life on a pseudo science based theory and tries to example with really bad allegories? Great example of someone doing a talk for 20 mins, throwing in all available buzzwords and hoping no one will notice by the end she'd actually said absolutely nothing of substance. I mean she's been studying this for over 20yrs and they are the best allegories you've got. You cant put forward theories and then offer evidence of them in the form of an allegory, this chic is your real deal snake oil salesmen. She should come with a buyer beware sign
@TripleSixxxRonin
2 жыл бұрын
Im glad infound a comment that noticed that as wel
2:52 - "...but in some parts of Brazil, I'm clearly White". I doubt that.
@TJLiwanag
7 жыл бұрын
have you ever been to Brazil and met its people?
@WindyDays2009
3 жыл бұрын
@@TJLiwanag I'm Brazilian, I've never been anywhere else. I'm sorry it took me so long to reply, but KZread only sent me a message letting me know about the second reply that I got for this.
I was forced to watch this propaganda as a part of a school assignment. Stay strong my fellow students.
Entomology is not a good analogy since Luna moths actually are green. Not all moths are the same species and will not gather with moths who aren't potential mates. Humans are one species with varying amounts of melanin based on environmental need. Since we travel more, different people are everywhere, yet still genetically the same species.
A component Of Racisn is surely POWER to economically SUpress a peopke....racism prejudice is a continued comittment to ignorance ☝🏿☝🏿💥💥💥💥
5:39 that's all "wokeness" means. It's not complex or remotely scary, it's basic humanity once you see it and the metaphorical glasses come off.
I had to watch this for a class. Watching it at two times speed is about all the seriousness it deserves. Did she just plagiarize the parable of the soils from Jesus? Really!
They will give anyone a degree.
“And I am going to make this story about racism.” Noooooo *sarcastic shock*. Even though you literally made a career uncovering phantom racism, in every sphere of life. I don’t believe you would make a story ABOUT RACISM!