{"id":20526,"date":"2012-02-11T05:34:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20526"},"modified":"2012-02-11T05:34:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:34:46","slug":"being-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20526","title":{"rendered":"Being Black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being Black<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Barry Morgan Show<\/a>
\nCJAD<\/a>, 800 AM
\nMontreal, Quebec, Canada
\n2012-02-10<\/p>\n

Barry Morgan<\/a><\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n

Yaba Blay<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
\nLafayette College<\/em><\/p>\n

Have you ever heard of the (1<\/span>)ne Drop Project<\/a>? I never had until I spoke with its pioneer, Yaba Blay, visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lafayette College.
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\nBlay studied people who identify as black but don’t who don’t exactly look black (many are often mistaken for Latino) to find out how they define their ‘blackness.’
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\nShe uses portrait documentaries (book and film), photography exhibitions, and public programming for the purpose of raising social awareness and sparking community dialogue about the complexities of Blackness as both an identity and a lived reality.
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\nThe (1<\/span>)ne Drop effectively seeks to challenge narrow, yet popular perceptions of what \u201cBlackness\u201d is and what \u201cBlackness\u201d looks like.
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\n(1<\/span>)ne Drop basically hopes to awaken a long-overdue and much needed dialogue about racial identity and skin color politics.<\/p>\n

Listen to the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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