ADVANCE PRAISE FOR (1)NE DROP: "With (1) Drop, Dr. Blay has assembled a series of personal narratives on race identification that immediately activate the reader’s own anxieties, subconscious generational fears and righteous modern day cultural agendas. She also raises fresh questions about the power of words used to describe the color of a person: black, white, brown and ‘yella.’ Words that describe tone: light, dark, mixed…and how these words are STILL needed to describe one’s nationality or faith: African, American, Haitian, Puerto Rican…Muslim, Jew… For example, even though he identifies as “a Black man,” one would describe my husband as the mixed light-skinned Black child of a Black Ghanaian father and White German Jewish mother. That’s a whole lotta words to put next to a box. But, Dr. Blay reminds us that when examining the political history of this country and all the races of people who were sacrificed to build it, these random adjectives ironically pointed to only two far more serious ones: free or enslaved. This book reveals that even though racism has a stronghold on our bodies and minds, a healing is at hand. People everywhere are taking the time to learn about and claim the fullness of themselves, one drop at a time. With each page, another tablecloth in the proverbial Big House is shaken off, and the crumbs of our systematically dismantled identity are powerfully, lovingly, and proudly pieced back together, all over the world. Thank you Yaba for giving me something to give to my children." - Nicole Ari Parker, actor
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:23:56 +0000
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