{"id":60591,"date":"2021-02-27T04:26:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T04:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60591"},"modified":"2021-02-27T04:27:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T04:27:09","slug":"one-drop-shifting-the-lens-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60591","title":{"rendered":"ONE DROP: Shifting the Lens on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/One-Drop-P1687.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>ONE DROP: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beacon Press<\/a><br \/>\n2021-02-16<br \/>\n288 pages<br \/>\n9 x 9 Inches<br \/>\nISBN: 978-080707336-0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yabablay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Yaba Blay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/One-Drop-P1687.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Assets\/ProductImages\/978-080707336-0.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the world<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black?<\/li>\n<li>Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness?<\/li>\n<li>Who determines who is Black and who is not?<\/li>\n<li>Who\u2019s Black, who\u2019s not, and who cares?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States<\/a>, a Black person has come to be defined as any person with any known Black ancestry. Statutorily referred to as \u201cthe rule of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hypodescent<\/a>,\u201d this definition of Blackness is more popularly known as the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-drop rule<\/a>,\u201d meaning that a person with any trace of Black ancestry, however small or (in)visible, cannot be considered White. A method of social order that began almost immediately after the arrival of enslaved Africans in America, by 1910 it was the law in almost all southern states. At a time when the one-drop rule functioned to protect and preserve White racial purity, Blackness was both a matter of biology and the law. One was either Black or White. Period. Has the social and political landscape changed one hundred years later?<\/p>\n<p><em>One Drop<\/em> explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining candid narratives with striking portraiture, this book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness. Although contributors use varying terms to self-identify, they all see themselves as part of the larger racial, cultural, and social group generally referred to as Black. They have all had their identity called into question simply because they do not fit neatly into the stereotypical \u201cBlack box\u201d\u2014dark skin, \u201ckinky\u201d hair, broad nose, full lips, etc. Most have been asked \u201cWhat are you?\u201d or the more politically correct \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d throughout their lives. It is through contributors\u2019 lived experiences with and lived imaginings of Black identity that we can visualize multiple possibilities for Blackness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Author\u2019s Note<\/li>\n<li>Intro<\/li>\n<li>Introspection<\/li>\n<li>Mixed Black<\/li>\n<li>American Black<\/li>\n<li>Diaspora Black<\/li>\n<li><em>Outro<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Notes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Acknowledgements<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>About<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,11,459,8,17,394,20],"tags":[3688,147,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-60591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-beacon-press","tag-photography","tag-yaba-a-blay","tag-yaba-amgborale-blay","tag-yaba-blay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60591","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=60591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60594,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60591\/revisions\/60594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}