"“Woke Up Black” is a 2011 documentary produced and directed by filmmaker Mary Morten that focuses on five African-American college students from the Chicago area. The youth, ages 16-21, represent a diversity of backgrounds and interests, and serve to expand viewers' understanding of both the challenges and triumphs of young African-Americans today. This particular clip follows a nineteen year old woman named Morgan, a Bio-Medical Engineering major who grew up in suburban Chicago and is used to functioning in a mostly white environment. Morgan's identity and relationship to race, as displayed in this clip, is complex. She is both proud to defy stereotypes for young African-American women and craving an African-American community, something she does not have at her out-of-state university. Morgan's experience elicits questions about diversity, community, difference, stereotypes, and whether we can truly understand and relate to people who have different identities than us.

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