Gaining visibility

The short video tells the story of the son of African American and Haitian American parents growing up black in New York City, and attending Dalton, the nation's most competitive Preparatory School.

Dalton is also a white school where students are predominantly white and hail from privileged backgrounds.

In a moment in the film the class gathers around a discussion of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man which, among other things, address the thorny issue of a white denial of the black presence in America.

Our little protagonist, inserts himself into the white presence, but as the film shows, gaining full-fledged visibility is not easy.