{"id":34515,"date":"2013-10-30T23:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34515"},"modified":"2014-09-20T17:15:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T17:15:45","slug":"dr-yaba-blay-on-shifting-the-lens-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34515","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yaba Blay on shifting the lens on race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/whyy.org\/cms\/radiotimes\/2013\/10\/30\/dr-yaba-blay-on-shifting-the-lens-on-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Yaba Blay on shifting the lens on race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whyy.org\/cms\/radiotimes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/whyy.org\" target=\"_blank\">WHYY 90.9 FM<\/a><br \/>\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania<br \/>\n2013-10-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whyy.org\/cms\/radiotimes\/2013\/10\/30\/dr-yaba-blay-on-shifting-the-lens-on-race\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.sndcdn.com\/artworks-000061459883-urhjrm-t200x200.jpg?3eddc42\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who is black? And who is not? \u201cMixed\/Jamerian,\u201d \u201cBlack\/Latina,\u201d \u201cAppalachian African American\u201d are examples of how some people of color describe themselves. Drexel University Africana Studies professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a> explores the nuances of the politics of racial identity and hair and skin color. Her work sheds light on the legacy of the outdated \u201cone-drop\u201d law \u2013 that if a person had a drop of black blood, they would be forever identified as black. Through interviews and research, <strong>she shows the diversity of the many ways bi-racial and multi-racial people self-identify.<\/strong> Her new portrait essay book is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32590\" target=\"_blank\">(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/117791311\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Download the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/117791311\/download?client_id=0f8fdbbaa21a9bd18210986a7dc2d72c\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yaba Blay on shifting the lens on race Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2013-10-30 Who is black? And who is not? \u201cMixed\/Jamerian,\u201d \u201cBlack\/Latina,\u201d \u201cAppalachian African American\u201d are examples of how some people of color describe themselves. Drexel University Africana Studies professor Dr. Yaba Blay explores the nuances of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,125,13743,8,394,20],"tags":[16265,16263,12553,16264,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-34515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-identitydevelopment","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-marty-moss-coane","tag-radio-times-with-marty-moss-coane","tag-whyy","tag-whyy-90-9-fm","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\/34515","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=34515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}