{"id":35677,"date":"2014-02-18T03:34:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T03:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35677"},"modified":"2014-03-19T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T13:33:32","slug":"color-without-complex-a-conversation-w-michaela-angela-davis-dr-yaba-blay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35677","title":{"rendered":"Color Without Complex: A Conversation w\/ Michaela Angela Davis &#038; Dr. Yaba Blay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/global\/global-academic-centers\/washington-dc\/nyu-washington--dc-events\/black-history-month-2014\/color-without-complex.html\" target=\"_blank\">Color Without Complex: A Conversation w\/ Michaela Angela Davis &amp; Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/global\/global-academic-centers\/washington-dc.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York University, Washington, D.C.<\/a><br \/>\nAbramson Family Auditorium<br \/>\n1307 L Street, N.W.<br \/>\nWashington, D.C. 20005<br \/>\nTuesday, 2014-02-18, 18:30 EST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michaela_Angela_Davis\" target=\"_blank\">Michaela Angela Davis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yaba Blay, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Africana Studies and Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies<br \/>\n<em>Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/global\/global-academic-centers\/washington-dc\/nyu-washington--dc-events\/black-history-month-2014\/color-without-complex.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/content\/nyu\/en\/global\/global-academic-centers\/washington-dc\/nyu-washington--dc-events\/black-history-month-2014\/color-without-complex\/jcr%3acontent\/tripleBox\/nyuimage.img.jpg\/1390349286086.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What exactly is Blackness? What does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines who is Black and who is not? Who&#8217;s Black, who&#8217;s not, and who cares? This discussion seeks to challenge narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/recorded\/43975964?v=3&amp;wmode=direct\" height=\"302\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"padding: 2px 0px 4px; width: 400px; background: #ffffff; display: block; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video streaming by Ustream<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fMuKtqBQxBY?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact: NYU Washington DC Events at <a href=\"mailto:nyuwashingtondcevents@nyu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">nyuwashingtondcevents@nyu.edu<\/a> or 202-654-8300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color Without Complex: A Conversation w\/ Michaela Angela Davis &amp; Dr. Yaba Blay New York University, Washington, D.C. Abramson Family Auditorium 1307 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Tuesday, 2014-02-18, 18:30 EST (Local Time) Michaela Angela Davis Yaba Blay, Ph.D., Professor of Africana Studies and Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania What exactly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,13,8,20],"tags":[16871,12980,16870,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-35677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-d-c","tag-michaela-angela-davis","tag-new-york-university-washginton","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\/35677","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=35677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}