Tag: (1)ne Drop Project

  • Why It Was Easy for Rachel Dolezal to Pass as Black Pacific Standard 2015-06-15 Lisa Wade, Associate Professor of Sociology Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Race is more social than biological. Source: (1)ne Drop Project Earlier this year a CBS commentator in a panel with Jay Smooth embarrassingly revealed that she thought he was white…

  • Racial Identity and the Shadow of Jim Crow in the Black Community (1)ne Drop Project 2013-10-07 Kimberly Bernita Ross Michigan State University My grandmother Bernice was born in New Orleans in 1918 to a Black mother and a White father at a time when interracial marriage was illegal. Her mother, Roseanna, a maid in a…

  • When two sources of water come together to form one body, it is called a confluence. This is a place where two distinct sources of water crash and tumble over each other, churning and frothing. Here, a new river is born that cuts through the terrain as a single system. Some of these amalgamated rivers…

  • Don Lemon: It only takes one drop Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-15 Don Lemon, Anchor CNN Newsroom This piece is part of a three-part series tied to the (1)ne Drop Project. (CNN) – For years, the woman on the left in the photograph below could not be…

  • Am I Black? Hell yeah! I have light green eyes, when I had hair it was curly and blonde. My complexion is café au lait. Billy Calloway, “Am I Black? Hell Yeah!,” (1)ne Drop Project, (January 16, 2013). http://1nedrop.com/am-i-black-hell-yeah-by-billy-calloway/

  • Who’s Black, Who’s Not, and Who Cares? Uptown Magazine 2011-11-02 Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “What are you?” It’s a question I have never been asked. I am Black. Period. The color of my skin is reflective of my Ghanaian ancestry and by its dark tone, everyone I encounter…

  • (1)NE DROP: Fact, Fiction, or Fate? Drexel University James E. Marks Intercultural Center (Lower Level) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday, 2013-02-04, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time) Africana Studies and the Office of Equality & Diversity present (1)NE DROP: Fact, Fiction, or Fate? featuring Dr. Yaba Blay, artistic director of the (1)NE DROP PROJECT and assistant teaching professor of…

  • “Am I Black? Hell Yeah!” (1)ne Drop Project Journal 2013-01-16 Billy Calloway “You make sure to keep a bonnet on that boy’s head. We don’t need to tip off the sales agent that a Black family is moving in.” This was the first story I remember being told to me by my dad. My father…

  • Choice—especially around identity—is a fascinating subject in and of itself. How we choose to identify is intensely personal for many, and perhaps particularly perplexing for some Mixed-race identified people, as it inherently calls into question our notions of “race”. Having said that, I can only speak for myself, and I have chosen to identify as…

  • Strange Fruit: Dr. Yaba Blay’s (1)ne Drop Project; Director Kenny Leon WFPL 89.3 FM Louisville, Kentucky 2012-11-03 Laura Ellis, Producer Who is black? That’s the question the (1)ne Drop Project seeks to answer. The project, created by Dr. Yaba Blay, features photographs of people who identify as black, African-American, biracial, and other identities—but whose physical…