{"id":35948,"date":"2014-02-26T19:16:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35948"},"modified":"2014-03-01T13:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T13:45:38","slug":"multiple-eyedentity-series-1ne-drop-rule-w-yaba-blay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35948","title":{"rendered":"Multiple (Eye)dentity Series: (1)ne Drop Rule w\/ Yaba Blay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/multiple-eyedentity-series-1ne-drop-rule-w-yaba-blay-tickets-8196980389\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Multiple (Eye)dentity Series: (1)ne Drop Rule w\/ Yaba Blay<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York University<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/life\/resources-and-services\/kimmel-center.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kimmel Center for University Life<\/a><br \/>\n60 Washington Square Sout<br \/>\nRoom 802<br \/>\nNew York, New York 10012<br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, 2014-02-27, 17:00-21:00 EST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/life\/student-life\/student-diversity\/multicultural-educationandprograms\/programs-and-events\/the-multiple--eye-dentity-series.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Multiple (Eye)dentity Series<\/a> is comprised of films, performances and speakers that showcase the ways in which art and media are platforms for creating dialogue, sharing personal narratives, exploring issues of identity and diversity, and encouraging activism and social change.<\/p>\n<p>This session features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a>, creator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">(1)ne Drop Rule Project<\/a>. Through this project, Dr. Blay, seeks to challenge narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality. Featuring the perspectives of 58 contributors representing 25 different countries and countries of origin, and combining candid memoirs with simple, yet striking, portraiture, this multi-platform project 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 and known as \u201cBlack.\u201d They all have experienced having their identity called into question simply because they don\u2019t fit neatly into the stereotypical \u201cBlack box\u201d \u2014 dark skin, \u201ckinky\u201d hair, broad nose, full lips, etc. \u2013 and most have been asked \u201cWhat are you?\u201d or the more politically correct, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d numerous times by various people 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 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Please stop by the 8th floor of the Kimmel Center to see a portion of the exhibit until mid March!<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/multiple-eyedentity-series-1ne-drop-rule-w-yaba-blay-tickets-8196980389\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple (Eye)dentity Series: (1)ne Drop Rule w\/ Yaba Blay New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square Sout Room 802 New York, New York 10012 Thursday, 2014-02-27, 17:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) The Multiple (Eye)dentity Series is comprised of films, performances and speakers that showcase the ways in which art and media are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,8,20],"tags":[17031,6306,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-35948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-multiple-eyedentity-series","tag-new-york-university","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\/35948","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=35948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}