{"id":30309,"date":"2013-05-06T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30309"},"modified":"2013-10-03T01:57:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T01:57:29","slug":"one-drop-of-love-a-daughters-search-for-her-fathers-racial-approval-at-university-of-california-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30309","title":{"rendered":"One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval (at University of California, Santa Barbara)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval (at University of California, Santa Barbara)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of California, Santa Barbara
\nMultiCultural Center Theater<\/a>\u00a0[Directions<\/a>] [Map<\/a>]
\nUniversity Center, Room 1504
\nTuesday, 2013-05-07, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n

Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/a><\/strong>, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator<\/p>\n

Jillian Pagan<\/strong>, Director<\/p>\n

Produced by: Ben Affleck<\/a>, Matt Damon<\/a> and Chay Carter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Q&A afterwards hosted by:<\/p>\n

G. Reginald Daniel<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni returns to the West Coast after a phenomenally successful performance at the University of Maryland.<\/em><\/p>\n

Incorporating filmed images, photographs and animation, this one-woman show tells the story of how the notion of \u2018race\u2019 came to be in the U.S., and its effects on the narrator\u2019s relationship with her father\u2014a journey that will take audiences from the 1600s to the present, to cities all over the U.S. and to West and East Africa, where both father and daughter spent time in search of their \u2018racial\u2019 roots.<\/p>\n

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\nFanshen Cox DiGiovanni. \u00a9<\/sup>2103, Evan Tamayo<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is a leading activist concerning mixed race, and is an actor, comedian, producer and educator. One Drop of Love<\/a><\/em> is her MFA thesis, and she will be using footage from her performances to make a documentary.<\/p>\n

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\nFanshen and her father after University of Maryland performance. (2013-03-29). \u00a9<\/sup>2013, Marvin T. Jones<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Ms. Cox DiGiovanni appeared in the 2013 Academy Award and Golden Globe winning film Argo<\/a><\/em> (2012); co-created, co-produced and co-hosted the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat (2007-2012); and co-founded and produced the annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival<\/a>\u00ae<\/sup> (2008-20012). For more on Ms. Cox DiGiovanni and One Drop of Love<\/em>, visit: http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

G. Reginald Daniel is a professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara and\u00a0a leading expert in field of critical mixed race studies<\/a>.\u00a0He received the 2012 Loving Prize from the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival in Los Angeles for his lifelong work as a scholar and participant within the multiracial community. He is the author of More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order<\/a><\/em> (Temple University Press, 2001) and Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?<\/a><\/em> (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006). He is also the author of over 40 chapters and articles dealing with the topic of multiraciality. His latest book is Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist<\/a><\/em> (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n

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\nFanshen and her parents after University of Maryland performance\u00a0(2013-03-29). \u00a9<\/sup>2013, Michael J. Hardy<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Admission is free.<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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