{"id":55150,"date":"2017-11-14T21:48:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55150"},"modified":"2017-11-14T21:48:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:48:36","slug":"love-alone-will-not-dismantle-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55150","title":{"rendered":"Love, Alone, Will Not Dismantle Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love, Alone, Will Not Dismantle Racism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Girl Mob<\/a>
\n2017-11-13<\/p>\n

Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/strong><\/a>, Actor\/Producer\/Educator<\/p>\n

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\nFanshen Cox DiGiovanni<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

For the last four years I have traveled across the globe presenting my one-woman show, One Drop of Love<\/em><\/a>. The first two words of the play\u2019s title refer to the one-drop rule<\/a>. The one-drop rule was created to determine the amount of Sub-Saharan African<\/a> blood necessary (\u2018one drop\u2019) to justify enslaving and otherwise stripping away the rights of a person. These words in my title symbolize the historical and systemic racism inherent in the United States<\/a>. I end the title and the play with the word love – for the hope I carry that we, collectively, will commit ourselves to dismantling this system. However, after the show, some audience members cling to the last word\u2014love\u2014while seemingly ignoring the first two.<\/p>\n

While love may be helpful in change-making, there is necessary work to do before expecting people disenfranchised by racism to love their way to change\u2014we must insist on truth and justice first…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While love may be helpful in change-making, there is necessary work to do before expecting people disenfranchised by racism to love their way to change–we must insist on truth and justice first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1467,8,23674,20],"tags":[118,12646,27627],"class_list":["post-55150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-fanshen-cox","tag-fanshen-cox-digiovanni","tag-girl-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55150","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=55150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55151,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55150\/revisions\/55151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}