{"id":34717,"date":"2013-11-15T17:54:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34717"},"modified":"2015-03-22T01:46:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T01:46:18","slug":"dr-yaba-blay-to-appear-tonight-on-totally-biased-with-w-kamau-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34717","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Yaba Blay to Appear Tonight on &#8220;Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/totallybiased.blogs.fxnetworks.com\/2013\/11\/13\/tonight-on-totally-biased-november-13th\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Yaba Blay to Appear Tonight on &#8220;Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxx.com\/totallybiased\" target=\"_blank\">Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FXX<\/a><br \/>\nWednesday, 2013-11-13, 23:00 EST (2013-11-14, 04:00Z)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxx.com\/totallybiased\/castcrew#cast\/kamau-bell\" target=\"_blank\">W. Kamau Bell<\/a><\/strong>, Executive Producer and Host<\/p>\n<p>Tonight on <em>Totally Biased<\/em>, we proudly welcome <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yabablay.com\/\">Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yaba Blay is a professor, producer, and publisher. As a researcher and ethnographer, she uses personal and social narratives to disrupt fundamental assumptions about cultures and identities. As a cultural worker and producer, she uses images to inform consciousness, incite dialogue, and inspire others into action and transformation. While her broader research interests are related to Africana cultural aesthetics and aesthetic practices, and global Black popular culture, Dr. Blay\u2019s specific research interests lie within global Black identities and the politics of embodiment, with particular attention given to hair and skin color politics. Her 2007 dissertation, <em>Yellow Fever: Skin Bleaching and the Politics of Skin Color in Ghana<\/em>, relies upon African-centered and African feminist methodologies to investigate the social practice of skin bleaching in Ghana; and her ethnographic case study of skin color and identity in New Orleans entitled \u201cPretty Color and Good Hair\u201d is featured as a chapter in the anthology <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7997\" target=\"_blank\">Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair\/Body Politics in Africana Communities<\/a><\/em><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kfQ6nAsjb9w?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of today\u2019s leading voices on colorism and global skin color politics, Dr. Yaba Blay is the author of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32590\" target=\"_blank\">(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and artistic director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop project<\/a>. In 2012, she served as a Consulting Producer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26792\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Black in America \u2013 \u201cWho is Black in America?\u201d<\/a> \u2013 a television documentary inspired by the scope of her (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop project. In addition to her production work for CNN, Dr. Blay is producing a transmedia film project focused on the global practice of skin bleaching (with director Terence Nance).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yaba Blay to Appear Tonight on &#8220;Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell&#8221; Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell FXX Wednesday, 2013-11-13, 23:00 EST (2013-11-14, 04:00Z) W. Kamau Bell, Executive Producer and Host Tonight on Totally Biased, we proudly welcome Dr. Yaba Blay!\u00a0 Dr. Yaba Blay is a professor, producer, and publisher. As a researcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13743,13,8,394,20,842],"tags":[16359,16358,16357,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-34717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-fxx","tag-totally-biased-with-w-kamau-bell","tag-w-kamau-bell","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\/34717","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=34717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}