Who is Black? The (1)Ne Drop Project on the November 19th 'Left of Black'

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The (1)Ne Drop Project on the November 19^th Left of Black</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within a political economy of race and difference, was a blatant attempt to embolden Whiteness and the privilege that derived from it.  Scholar <b>Yaba Blay</b> offers a different view of the “one drop” rule with her multi-media project <b><i><a href="http://1nedrop.com/">(1)ne Drop<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"> </span></a></i></b>which “seeks to challenge narrow, yet popular perceptions of what Blackness is and what Blackness looks like.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Blay, a Visiting Professor of African<b>a</b>Studies at Drexel University and contributing producer to CNN’s <i>Black in America 5</i>, which was inspired by the <i><a href="http://1nedrop.com/">(1)ne Drop</a></i> project, joins Duke University Professor<b> Mark Anthony Neal</b> on the November 19^th episode of Left of Black to talk about the complexities of Black identity.  Neal is also joined by University of Washington<b> </b>Professor <b>Habiba Ibrahim</b> for part two of an interview about her new book <i><a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-divisi... the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism</a></i>(University of Minnesota Press).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&... of Black</a> airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel:<a href="http://tinyurl.com/LeftofBlack"&... style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.  </span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Left of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlack</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Mark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackMan</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Yaba Blay on Twitter: @FiyaWata</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com...' alt='' /></div>