{"id":39188,"date":"2015-01-02T20:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T20:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39188"},"modified":"2015-01-02T20:05:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T20:05:44","slug":"losing-my-cool-love-literature-and-a-black-mans-escape-from-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39188","title":{"rendered":"Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man\u2019s Escape from the Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/losing-my-cool-by-thomas-chatterton-williams\/9780143119623\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man\u2019s Escape from the Crowd<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin Books<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2010<br \/>\n240 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780143119623<br \/>\nePub ISBN: 9781101404348<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Chatterton Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/book\/losing-my-cool-by-thomas-chatterton-williams\/9780143119623\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.penguingroup.com\/Covers\/623\/9780143119623M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hip_hop#Culture\" target=\"_blank\">hip-hop culture<\/a> that surrounded him. For years, he managed to juggle two disparate lifestyles, \u201ckeeping it real\u201d in his friends\u2019 eyes and studying for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SAT\" target=\"_blank\">SATs<\/a> under his father\u2019s strict tutelage-until it all threatened to spin out of control. Written with remarkable candor and emotional depth, <em>Losing My Cool<\/em> portrays the allure and danger of hip-hop culture with the authority of a true fan who\u2019s lived through it all, while demonstrating the saving grace of literature and the power of the bond between father and son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,20],"tags":[18962,4725],"class_list":["post-39188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-penguin-books","tag-thomas-chatterton-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}