Beautiful Me(s): Finding Our Revolutionary Selves

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Professor Robin J. Hayes of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy is both a scholar and a filmmaker. She screens and discusses her documentary film, Beautiful Me(s): Finding Our Revolutionary Selves in Black Cuba, which explores how African Americans and Afro-Cubans can learn from one another about building community, forging coalitions, and responding to racism.[1]

Plot

For a week, the group of nine, armed with video-cameras, left the predominantly White confines of New Haven, Ct., for the island nation that is 62 percent Black and Mulatto. The film mingles interviews of the students with whatever Cuba footage the non-professional videographers could salvage. It’s more about the group’s reaction to Cuba than Cuba itself. [2]

Messages

Behind a cultural curtain created by political conflict, the students discover that Cuban people feel a close affinity with Africans and African Americans, and are deeply committed to ending racial injustice.[3]

During an interview with Robin J. Hayes, documentary filmmaker and scholar at the New School., she explains that this documentary discusses some of the issues that arise from racial and economic inequality, such as the racial achievement gap in education, violence and disparities in health care access. My hope is that viewers will decide for themselves what changes they would like to see in their communities and support organisations on the ground that are already working towards them.[4]