{"id":43043,"date":"2015-10-02T13:31:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T13:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43043"},"modified":"2015-10-06T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T14:11:36","slug":"one-drop-of-love-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43043","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One Drop of Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmithsophian.com\/one-drop-of-love\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018One Drop of Love\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmithsophian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Sophian: The Independent Newspaper of Smith College<\/a><br \/>\nNorthampton, Massachusetts<br \/>\n2015-09-24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eliza Going<\/strong>, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/a-little-more-about-fanshen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/a> performed her well-known one-woman play challenging the construct of race, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onedropoflove.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Drop of Love<\/a>,\u201d on Sept. 18 and 19 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smith.edu\/theatre\/facilities.php\" target=\"_blank\">Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre<\/a>. In this show, she not only tells the story of her own experiences with race as a multicultural woman, but she also gives a taste of many different incidents experienced by people of varying ages, backgrounds and cultural identities through the ups and downs of their most intimate relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The play is presented in two formats. In one, DiGiovanni plays a variety of different characters talking conversationally about their experience with race; in the other, she jumps through U.S. history as a census taker. A projector lights up a simple white screen with the year and race section of the corresponding census&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tying the census into the play introduces a political component that connects the stories of racial injustice to a tangible account of the government\u2019s inattention toward racial or cultural identity. Only in 2010 [2000]\u00a0did it become possible to check more than one box on the census. \u201cI\u2019m glad she connected the personal and the political in this way because, to me, they\u2019re inextricably linked, and one can\u2019t talk about one without the other,\u201d Elizabeth Haas \u201917 said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmithsophian.com\/one-drop-of-love\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018One Drop of Love\u2019 The Sophian: The Independent Newspaper of Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts 2015-09-24 Eliza Going, Contributing Writer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni performed her well-known one-woman play challenging the construct of race, \u201cOne Drop of Love,\u201d on Sept. 18 and 19 in the Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre. In this show, she not only tells the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,33,459,1196,8,20],"tags":[21255,21254,118,12646,3953,21256],"class_list":["post-43043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-census","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-eliza-going","tag-elizabeth-haas","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-fanshen-cox-digiovanni","tag-smith-college","tag-the-sophian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043","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=43043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43112,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043\/revisions\/43112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}