Brené with Dr. Yaba Blay on One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

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Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.6 • 24.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In this episode, I talk to Dr. Yaba Blay about her new book, One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race. It’s an honest and raw conversation about identity, grief, transformation, history, colorism, and taking responsibility for change. I continue to reflect on this quote from Dr. Blay: “Identity is nuanced. It’s complicated. I think it’s hard to define. Sometimes I think it’s dangerous to define, depending upon who’s doing the defining.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Brine Brown and this is unlocking us.
0:06.7	This is an important, beautiful, hard, honest, reflective conversation that I get to have today, such a privilege
0:18.9	with Dr. Yaba Bley.
0:22.0	She is the author of the new book One Drop, Shifting the Lens on Race. And we talk about everything,
0:32.8	we talk about identity, we talk about grief,
0:38.2	we talk about transformation, we talk about history,
0:41.8	we talk about colorism, we talk about taking responsibility for change, we talk about a
0:49.2	talk about a program that she has where she teaches us to recognize the very subtle and painful
0:58.6	and traumatizing ways that colorism changes the way we think and feel, not only an honor to have you
1:07.4	here with us for this conversation, but such a gift to be in conversation with Dr. Yabablay.
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