Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Thomas Chatterton Williams
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Otis Houston interviews Thomas Chatterton Williams
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For anyone who is doubtful of the sheer absurdity of racial categorization and the porousness of our supposed boundaries, the Piper family history can be instructive. Adrian Margaret Smith Piper was born in 1948 in Washington Heights, and raised there and on Riverside Drive. On her paternal side, she is the product of a long…
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The conceptual artist’s life and work push against the boundaries
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, fellow at the American Academy Berlin, read from his thought-provoking essay “Black and Blue and Blond” published in the Virginia Quarterly Review and anthologized in The Best American Essays 2016 which is now the basis of a book project.
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Who Are We, Really? View from Rue Saint-Georges The American Scholar 2016-09-21 Thomas Chatterton Williams Detail from The Redemption of Ham by Modesto Brocos y Gómez (1895) Lately, as I’ve been working on my second book, a meditation on the absurdity of sorting human beings into metaphorical color categories, I’ve been thinking a lot about…
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The Next Great Migration The New York Times 2015-03-01 Thomas Chatterton Williams PARIS — AT dinner last summer with my brother-in-law, a grandson of Jews who fled Algeria for France, the conversation turned to the rash of anti-Semitic incidents plaguing the country. At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews:…
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Season 2, Episode 11: Writer Thomas Chatterton Williams The Mixed Experience 2015-01-08 Heidi Durrow, Host We continue the second part of the season with writer Thomas Chatterton Williams author of Losing My Cool and the newly published essay in Virginia Quarterly Review “Black and Blue and Blond.” Listen to the episode here. Download the episode…
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Where does race fit in the construction of modern identity?
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Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd Penguin Books April 2010 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780143119623 ePub ISBN: 9781101404348 Thomas Chatterton Williams Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed…