{"id":30296,"date":"2013-04-11T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30296"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:34:48","slug":"%e2%80%9cone-drop-fact-fiction-or-fate%e2%80%9d-by-dr-yaba-blay-april-13th-at-7pm-in-stirn-auditorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30296","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOne-Drop: Fact, Fiction, or Fate?\u201d by Dr. Yaba Blay, April 13th at 7pm in Stirn Auditorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/aboutamherst\/news\/calendar\/events\/new_event\/node\/463675\" target=\"_blank\"><em>\u201cOne-Drop: Fact, Fiction, or Fate?\u201d by Dr. Yaba Blay, April 13th at 7pm in Stirn Auditorium<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amherst.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Amherst College<\/a><br \/>\nStirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum<br \/>\nAmherst, Massachusetts<br \/>\nSaturday, 2013-04-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines who is Black and who is not? The State, the society, or the individual? On April 13th at 7pm, <a href=\"http:\/\/yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a>, an Africana Studies professor at Drexel University [and artistic director and producer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop Project<\/a>], will present at Amherst in Stirn Auditorium. \u201cOne-Drop: Fact, Fiction, or Fate?\u201d provides a brief social history of the laws instituted to regulate social interactions between the races and thus outlines how it is that the United States came to adopt the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a> as the specific, and seemingly quantitative definition of Black identity. This presentation highlights the lived experiences of individuals for whom the one-drop rule exacts its influence most. There will be food and drinks!<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amherst.edu\/aboutamherst\/news\/calendar\/events\/new_event\/node\/463675\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne-Drop: Fact, Fiction, or Fate?\u201d by Dr. Yaba Blay, April 13th at 7pm in Stirn Auditorium Amherst College Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum Amherst, Massachusetts Saturday, 2013-04-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,13,8,394,20],"tags":[5586,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-30296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-amherst-college","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\/30296","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=30296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46723,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30296\/revisions\/46723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}