{"id":21028,"date":"2012-03-01T22:18:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21028"},"modified":"2015-05-23T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T20:12:31","slug":"the-one-drop-rule-how-black-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21028","title":{"rendered":"The One Drop Rule: How Black Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The One Drop Rule: How Black Are You?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cr\u00e8me Magazine<\/a>
\n2012-02-29<\/p>\n

Jessica Thorpe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSay it loud, I\u2019m Black and I\u2019m proud!<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 The James Brown<\/a> classic shed light on the revolution of how descendants of the African Diaspora<\/a> would begin to self-identify.\u00a0 Replacing racial identification terms such as \u201cnegro\u201d and \u201ccolored,\u201d the use of the word \u201cBlack\u201d was another step in the direction of breaking the chains of the oppression and injustice that plagued the African American for centuries.<\/p>\n

Today, the term \u201cBlack\u201d is commonly used to identify African descendants across America and other countries alike.<\/p>\n

But what is it to be Black?\u00a0 How do the descendents of Africa define \u201cBlackness?\u201d\u00a0 How do we as African Americans visualize a Black person?…<\/p>\n

…In recognition of such issues, Yaba Blay, PhD<\/a>, visiting Assistant Professor of African Studies at Lafayette College, and renowned photographer, Noelle Th\u00e9ard<\/a>, have collaborated on a multi-tiered media project\u00a0(1<\/span>)ne Drop<\/a>, to open the discussion on the \u201cother\u201d faces of Blackness.\u00a0 Using the \u201cone drop rule<\/a>\u201d as a reference, however not affirming or confirming its historical implications, the project will challenge the narrow yet commonplace perceptions of Blackness through a series of essays, personal insights, one-on-one conversations and video interviews with individuals who are not typically embraced as Black within our society.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project opens the conversation about the ways in which skin color politics works for people with lighter complexion.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just about the complexion, but rather the interplay between complexion and physical appearance with racial identity,\u201d explains Yaba Blay, PhD.<\/p>\n

A New Orleans<\/a> native, Blay\u2019s impetus for starting such a venture spun from personal experience.\u00a0 Growing up in a society with an undertone of racial consciousness, and a high population of Creoles<\/a> and Mulattoes<\/a>, Yaba had a heightened sense of racial politics within the Black community and the underlying sensitivities regarding skin color and racial identity…<\/p>\n

…\u201cAs a professor, I teach my students about the concept of the Diaspora and that there are Black people of African descent all over the globe.\u00a0 However, I guess there was some sort of separation for me between the theory and the practice.\u00a0 As I was sitting on the panel, and Rosa [Clemente]<\/a> was identifying as an African woman, I was thinking \u2018but you\u2019re Latina,\u2019 and I was taken aback and fascinated by the concept that somebody who has the option to be something else, chose to identify as Black.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The One Drop Rule: How Black Are You? Cr\u00e8me Magazine 2012-02-29 Jessica Thorpe \u201cSay it loud, I\u2019m Black and I\u2019m proud!\u201d\u00a0 The James Brown classic shed light on the revolution of how descendants of the African Diaspora would begin to self-identify.\u00a0 Replacing racial identification terms such as \u201cnegro\u201d and \u201ccolored,\u201d the use of the word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,125,8,394,20],"tags":[9247,9846,9845,8015,9847,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-21028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-1ne-drop-project","tag-creme-magazine","tag-jessica-thorpe","tag-noelle-theard","tag-rosa-clemente","tag-yaba-a-blay","tag-yaba-amgborale-blay","tag-yaba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}