{"id":42183,"date":"2015-08-09T05:20:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T05:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42183"},"modified":"2015-09-05T02:22:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T02:22:57","slug":"tom-williams-the-tnb-self-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42183","title":{"rendered":"Tom Williams: The TNB Self-Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenervousbreakdown.com\/tnbfiction\/2015\/06\/tom-williams-the-tnb-self-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Williams: The TNB Self-Interview<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenervousbreakdown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nervous Breakdown<\/a><br \/>\n2015-06-24<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dubioustalents\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re a hard guy to track down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know, I know. I\u2019m sorry. I just have a lot of obligations and duties\u2014many roles to play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What roles?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Husband, father, son, brother, department chair, mentor, friend, book reviewer, writer, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattos<\/a>, eh?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isn\u2019t that kind of a politically incorrect term?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2014which I\u2019ve used more than once\u2014is simply too generic; mixed race has always struck me as sloppy. What\u2019s that leave? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">Half-caste<\/a>? Halfie? Multiculti? After a while, mulatto starts looking pretty good again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire (self-)interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenervousbreakdown.com\/tnbfiction\/2015\/06\/tom-williams-the-tnb-self-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Williams: The TNB Self-Interview The Nervous Breakdown 2015-06-24 Tom Williams, Professor of English Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky You\u2019re a hard guy to track down. I know, I know. I\u2019m sorry. I just have a lot of obligations and duties\u2014many roles to play. What roles? Husband, father, son, brother, department chair, mentor, friend, book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,13743,8,20],"tags":[20661,20662,20658],"class_list":["post-42183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-the-nervous-breakdown","tag-tnb","tag-tom-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183","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=42183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42559,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42183\/revisions\/42559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}