‘One Drop of Love’ star Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni talks race, family and morePosted in Articles, Arts, Census/Demographics, History, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Social Science on 2014-11-06 21:37Z by Steven |
‘One Drop of Love’ star Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni talks race, family and more
The Tampa Bay Times
St. Petersburg, Florida
2014-11-05
Robbyn Mitchell, Times Staff Writer
 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni: “Race is like a religion to us.” |
It’s been an interesting year in race relations for America. In just over 10 months, there have been communities violently protesting loss of due process, NBA owners losing their teams over racist remarks and anti-immigration zealots blockading school buses full of brown children because they were presumed to be foreign.
It’s a climate — not of change, as was promised by the election of President Barack Obama, but of an overwhelming dedication to fight change.
“People believe in race so strongly they’re faithful to it. Race is like a religion to us,” said Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, writer and performer of One Drop of Love, a one-woman multimedia show coming to the Straz Center for the Performing Arts Saturday night.
As a woman with parents who identify themselves as different races — her father is black and her mother is white — Cox DiGiovanni says she has the had the privilege to move between two different spheres of American society and decide for herself how she would be defined.
“The way I identify myself is as a culturally mixed woman searching for racial answers,” she said. “I care about justice and that’s more important than racial identity.”…
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