{"id":35036,"date":"2013-12-15T01:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T01:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35036"},"modified":"2013-12-15T01:48:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T01:48:41","slug":"book-review-of-1ne-drop-shifting-the-lens-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35036","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Review of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Skanner<\/a>
\nPortland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington
\n2013-12-10<\/p>\n

Kam Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yaba Blay and Noelle Th\u00e9ard (dir. of photography), (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/em><\/a> (Philadelphia: BLACKprint Press, 2013)<\/p>\n

Traditionally, in America, if you were just a teeny-weeny bit black, you\u2019d always been considered black. This arbitrary color line was even codified by the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson<\/a><\/em>, an 1896 case brought by an octoroon<\/a> light enough to pass<\/a> who sued for the right to sit in the \u201cwhite only\u201d section of a segregated train traveling through the South…<\/p>\n

…This means that folks, who only a generation ago would\u2019ve been forced to identify themselves simply as black, now feel much more freedom to avail themselves of an array of alternatives along the ethnic spectrum. (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/a><\/em> is a collection of essays reflecting on racial identity by 60 introspective individuals who until relatively recently would\u2019ve been labeled black in the eyes of the law.<\/p>\n

This enlightening opus was edited by Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a>, a professor of Africana Studies at Drexel University, and each contributor\u2019s entry is accompanied by a proud portrait photographed by Noelle Th\u00e9ard<\/a>, a professor at Florida International University. The book breaks down the contributors by three categories: \u201cMixed Black,\u201d \u201cAmerican Black\u201d and \u201cDiaspora Black.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although \u201cBlack\u201d Kathleen Cross has a black father and a white mother, she has resisted the invitations to join the \u201cMultiracial Movement, which she sees as divisive. By contrast, Harlemite<\/a> Jozen Cummings describes himself as \u201cMixed,\u201d with parents who are Japanese, Puerto Rican and African-American…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Review of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race The Skanner Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington 2013-12-10 Kam Williams Yaba Blay and Noelle Th\u00e9ard (dir. of photography), (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race (Philadelphia: BLACKprint Press, 2013) Traditionally, in America, if you were just a teeny-weeny bit black, you\u2019d always been considered black. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,5,8],"tags":[16545,16547,13387,8015,147,16546,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-35036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","tag-jozen-cummings","tag-kam-williams","tag-kathleen-cross","tag-noelle-theard","tag-photography","tag-the-skanner","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\/35036","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=35036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}