Tom Williams: The TNB Self-InterviewPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Interviews, Media Archive, United States on 2015-08-09 05:20Z by Steven |
Tom Williams: The TNB Self-Interview
The Nervous Breakdown
2015-06-24
Tom Williams, Professor of English
Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky
You’re a hard guy to track down.
I know, I know. I’m sorry. I just have a lot of obligations and duties—many roles to play.
What roles?
Husband, father, son, brother, department chair, mentor, friend, book reviewer, writer, etc.
So, mulattos, eh?
Yup.
Isn’t that kind of a politically incorrect term?
Probably, but then again, these days, what is the best way to refer to a person, like me, like many of the characters in my book, men and women who have a black parent and a white parent? Biracial—which I’ve used more than once—is simply too generic; mixed race has always struck me as sloppy. What’s that leave? Half-caste? Halfie? Multiculti? After a while, mulatto starts looking pretty good again…
Read the entire (self-)interview here.