{"id":58090,"date":"2019-10-14T23:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58090"},"modified":"2019-10-15T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T00:08:25","slug":"self-portrait-in-black-and-white-unlearning-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58090","title":{"rendered":"Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton<\/a>
\n2019-10-15
\n192 pages
\n5.5 \u00d7 8.3 in
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-393-60886-1<\/p>\n

Thomas Chatterton Williams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics.<\/p>\n

A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White<\/em> is the searching story of one American family\u2019s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a \u201cblack\u201d father from the segregated South<\/a> and a \u201cwhite\u201d mother from the West<\/a>, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of \u201cblack blood\u201d makes a person black<\/a>. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he\u2019d never rigorously reflected on its foundations\u2014but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not that I have come to believe that I am no longer black or that my daughter is white,\u201d Williams writes. \u201cIt is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of us.\u201d Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black<\/em> and White is an urgent work for our time.<\/p>\n

Note from Steven F. Riley: See Chatterton Williams’ article \u201cBlack and Blue and Blond<\/a>\u201d in the Volume 91, Number 1 (Winter 2015) edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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