{"id":32590,"date":"2013-12-01T02:58:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T02:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32590"},"modified":"2017-08-26T19:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T19:13:13","slug":"1ne-drop-shifting-the-lens-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32590","title":{"rendered":"(1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackprintpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BLACKprint Press<\/a><br \/>\n2013-11-29<br \/>\n284 pages<br \/>\n75 full-page photographs<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-9896645-0-9<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yaba Blay, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>, The Daniel T. Blue Endowed Chair of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>North Carolina State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noelletheard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noelle Th\u00e9ard<\/a><\/strong>, Director of Photography<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1ne-Drop-Cover_Hires_CMYK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Independent Publisher&#8217;s 2014 &#8220;Multicultural Non-Fiction Adult&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=36414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gold Medal Winner<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>What exactly is Blackness?<br \/>\nWhat does it mean to be Black?<br \/>\nIs Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness?<br \/>\nWho determines who is Black and who is not?<br \/>\nWho\u2019s Black, who\u2019s not, and who cares?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the United States, a Black person has come to be defined as any person with any known Black ancestry. Statutorily referred to as \u201cthe rule of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hypodescent<\/a>,\u201d this definition of Blackness is more popularly known as the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-drop rule<\/a>,\u201d meaning that one solitary drop of Black blood is enough to render a person Black. Said differently, the one-drop rule holds that a person with any trace of Black ancestry, however small or (in)visible, cannot be considered White. A method of social order that began almost immediately after the arrival of enslaved Africans in America, by 1910 it was the law of the land in almost all southern U.S. states. At a time when the one-drop rule functioned to protect and preserve White racial purity, Blackness was both a matter of biology and the law. One was either Black or White. Period. One hundred years later, however, the social and political landscape has changed. Or has it?<\/p>\n<p><em>(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/em> sets out to explore the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference, particularly among those for whom the legacy of the one-drop rule perceptibly lingers. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining candid narratives with simple yet striking portraiture, this book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness. Although contributors use varying terms to self-identify, they all see themselves as part of the larger racial, cultural, and social group generally referred to as Black. They all have experienced having their identity called into question simply because they do not fit neatly into the stereotypical \u201cBlack box\u201d\u2014dark skin, \u201ckinky\u201d hair, broad nose, full lips, etc. Most have been asked \u201c<em>What are you?<\/em>\u201d or the more politically correct \u201c<em>Where are you from?<\/em>\u201d numerous times throughout their lives. It is through contributors\u2019 lived experiences with and lived imaginings of Black identity that we are able to visualize multiple possibilities for Blackness above and beyond the one-drop rule.<\/p>\n<p>The inspiration behind CNN\u2019s <em>Black in America: \u201cWho is Black in America?\u201d<\/em> and featured on CNN Newsroom, <em>(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop<\/em> continues to spark much-needed dialogue about the intricacies and nuances of racial identity and the influence of skin color politics on questions of who is Black and who is not.<\/p>\n<p><em>(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop <\/em>takes the very literal position that in order for us to see <em>Blackness<\/em> differently, we have to see Blackness differently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Author&#8217;s Note<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Intro<\/li>\n<li>Introspection<\/li>\n<li>Mixed Black<\/li>\n<li>American Black<\/li>\n<li>Diaspora Black<\/li>\n<li>Outro<\/li>\n<li><em>Notes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Acknowledgements<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>About<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;(1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race&#8221; sets out to explore the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference, particularly among those for whom the legacy of the one-drop rule perceptibly lingers. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining candid narratives with simple yet striking portraiture, this book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,11,8,17,394],"tags":[15307,8015,147,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-32590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","tag-blackprint-press","tag-noelle-theard","tag-photography","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\/32590","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=32590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54841,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32590\/revisions\/54841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}