A Dialogue on Institutional Colorism and Moving Toward Healing with Dr. Yaba BlayPosted in Articles, Audio, Interviews, Media Archive, Social Science, United States, Women on 2015-01-29 16:16Z by Steven |
A Dialogue on Institutional Colorism and Moving Toward Healing with Dr. Yaba Blay
For Harriet
2015-01-28
Kimberly Foster, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher
For Harriet is nearly five years old, and I’ve learned there are a few topics that are sure to spark contentious debate. Colorism is one of them. Discussions on colorism provoke strong feelings in Black women, in particular, and it seems that rarely do the conversation’s participants walk away with a deeper understanding of the institutional consequences of colorism or the ways we can move forward in combatting them.
What Bill Duke’s Light Girls documentary sorely missed was the voice of a Black woman colorism scholar, so I felt compelled to speak with Dr. Yaba Blay about how we can have a more effective conversation on colorism in our attempts to heal. Dr. Blay is currently co-director and assistant teaching professor of Africana Studies at Drexel University. She’s the artistic director and producer of the (1)ne Drop Project, and she was a consulting producer for CNN’s Black in America 5.
Read her phenomenal book, (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race…
Listen to the interview and read the transcript here.