{"id":53338,"date":"2017-04-10T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53338"},"modified":"2017-04-17T23:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:10:31","slug":"skin-color-and-politics-focus-of-dan-t-blue-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53338","title":{"rendered":"Skin Color and Politics Focus of Dan T. Blue Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skin Color and Politics Focus of Dan T. Blue Symposium<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

North Carolina Central University
\nDurham, North Carolina
\n2017-04-03<\/p>\n

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\nYaba Blay<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

North Carolina Central University<\/a> (NCCU)\u2019s 2017 Dan T. Blue Symposium in Political Science will take place April 10-13 with a focus on \u201cThe Politics of Skin Color.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conference is hosted by Yaba Blay<\/a>, Ph.D., holder of the Dan T. Blue Endowed Chair at NCCU. Blay is a nationally recognized researcher and ethnographer who uses personal and social narratives to explore issues of race, class and culture. All events during the symposium are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cLight skin versus dark skin: Which is more socially advantageous? Regarded as more beautiful? Considered more Black? Treated more favorably by the law?\u201d Blay asks. \u201cThese are not as much questions of personal opinion as they are issues of power and politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The symposium keynote event brings Blay on stage with CNN contributor and activist Michaela Angela Davis<\/a> and Patrice Grell Yursik<\/a>, whose online persona Afrobella is considered the godmother of brown beauty blogging, for a public conversation about colorism<\/a> beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, at the A.E. Student Union.<\/p>\n

Blay defines colorism as a discriminatory system of value based on skin tone that encourages people of color to opt for separation in place of unity. Photography from her 2013 book \u201c(1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/a>,\u201d will be on display April 10-13 in a pop-up exhibit at the NCCU Museum of Art, with an opening reception Tuesday, April 11, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.\u00a0 Blay will present a lecture on her work immediately following the reception in the Hubbard-Totten Building Auditorium…<\/p>\n

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