{"id":60646,"date":"2021-03-12T15:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60646"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:26:46","slug":"yaba-blay-one-drop-shifting-the-lens-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60646","title":{"rendered":"Yaba Blay | One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=93p_6lcOe9o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Yaba Blay | <\/strong><\/em><strong>One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCAIpjRk6Huxk117kyICe5nA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Author Events<\/a><br \/>\n2021-03-04<\/p>\n<p><strong>Host:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aas.princeton.edu\/people\/imani-perry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Imani Perry<\/strong><\/a>, Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies; Faculty Associate in the Program in Law and Public Affairs and Gender and Sexuality Studies<br \/>\n<em>Princeton University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93p_6lcOe9o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Referred to by <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelericdyson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Eric Dyson<\/a> as \u201cone of the most brilliant and committed critics and advocates writing and thinking and working on behalf of Black people today,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yabablay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Yaba Blay<\/a> is a scholar, activist, and cultural consultant. Focusing on Black women and girls through topics like personal identity and body image, she has launched a number of viral media campaigns, produced the CNN documentary <em>Who is Black in America?<\/em>, and is an internationally renowned public speaker. Her work has appeared in publications such as the <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>Essence<\/em>, and <em>EBONY<\/em>, and she has appeared on CNN, BET, and NPR, among other media outlets. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>One Drop<\/em><\/a>, Blay questions conventional perceptions of Blackness in order to create and understand a more diverse worldwide community.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=93p_6lcOe9o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In One Drop, Blay questions conventional perceptions of Blackness in order to create and understand a more diverse worldwide community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,125,13743,8,842],"tags":[31358,18374,7993,3343,7992],"class_list":["post-60646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-videos","tag-author-events","tag-imani-perry","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\/60646","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=60646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60648,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60646\/revisions\/60648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}