{"id":39743,"date":"2015-01-29T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T16:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39743"},"modified":"2015-02-10T21:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:55:53","slug":"a-dialogue-on-institutional-colorism-and-moving-toward-healing-with-dr-yaba-blay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39743","title":{"rendered":"A Dialogue on Institutional Colorism and Moving Toward Healing with Dr. Yaba Blay"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dialogue on Institutional Colorism and Moving Toward Healing with Dr. Yaba Blay<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

For Harriet<\/a>
\n2015-01-28<\/p>\n

Kimberly Foster<\/strong><\/a>, Editor-in-Chief\/Publisher<\/p>\n

For Harriet<\/em> is nearly five years old, and I’ve learned there are a few topics that are sure to spark contentious debate. Colorism<\/a> is one of them. Discussions on colorism provoke strong feelings in Black women, in particular, and it seems that rarely do the conversation’s participants walk away with a deeper understanding of the institutional consequences of colorism or the ways we can move forward in combatting them.<\/p>\n

What Bill Duke’s<\/a> Light Girls<\/em><\/a> documentary sorely missed was the voice of a Black woman colorism scholar, so I felt compelled to speak with Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a> about how we can have a more effective conversation on colorism in our attempts to heal. Dr. Blay is currently co-director and assistant teaching professor of Africana Studies at Drexel University. She’s the artistic director and producer of the (1)ne Drop Project<\/a>, and she was a consulting producer for CNN\u2019s Black in America 5<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n