{"id":48343,"date":"2016-07-20T19:25:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T19:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48343"},"modified":"2016-07-20T20:40:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:40:28","slug":"the-complexities-of-skin-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48343","title":{"rendered":"The Complexities of Skin Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.unctv.org\/video\/2365731841\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Complexities of Skin Color<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.unctv.org\/show\/black-issues-forum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Issues Forum<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unctv.org\" target=\"_blank\">UNC-TV<\/a><br \/>\nRaleigh, North Carolina<br \/>\n2016-05-01<br \/>\nRunning Time: 00:26:46<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/debholtnoel\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Deborah Holt Noel<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365731841\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the casting of Latina actress <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoe_Saldana\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Saldana<\/a> to play <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nina_Simone\" target=\"_blank\">Nina Simone<\/a>, the performer and activist known for her pride in her dark skin, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/debholtnoel\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah<\/a> chats with professor <a href=\"http:\/\/yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a>, filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/ericbarstow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Barstow<\/a>, and undergraduate student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ayana-thompson-03313885\" target=\"_blank\">Ayana Thompson<\/a> to delve into why so many people still knowingly and unknowingly participate in colorism &#8211; the assertion that light is better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complexities of Skin Color Black Issues Forum UNC-TV Raleigh, North Carolina 2016-05-01 Running Time: 00:26:46 Deborah Holt Noel, Host Inspired by the casting of Latina actress Zoe Saldana to play Nina Simone, the performer and activist known for her pride in her dark skin, Deborah chats with professor Dr. Yaba Blay, filmmaker Eric Barstow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13743,1196,8,394,20,842],"tags":[24538,24537,240,4196,11836,24536,24539,7993,3343,7992,11840],"class_list":["post-48343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-ayana-thompson","tag-black-issues-forum","tag-colorism","tag-eric-barstow","tag-nina-simone","tag-unc-tv","tag-university-of-north-carolina-television","tag-yaba-a-blay","tag-yaba-amgborale-blay","tag-yaba-blay","tag-zoe-saldana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48343","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=48343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48347,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48343\/revisions\/48347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}