{"id":59042,"date":"2019-10-16T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T00:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59042"},"modified":"2019-10-16T00:16:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T00:16:47","slug":"race-to-the-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59042","title":{"rendered":"Race to the finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race to the finish<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Spectator<\/a>
\n2019-10-15<\/p>\n

J. Oliver Conroy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"chatterton\"<\/a>
\nProtesters in Chicago<\/a> on the 50th anniversary of the killing of Martin Luther King<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race<\/a> by Thomas Chatterton Williams<\/a> reviewed<\/em><\/p>\n

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
\nThomas Chatterton Williams<\/strong><\/a>
\nW. W. Norton & Company, pp.192, $25.95<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018I have observed,\u2019 Joseph Addison<\/a> wrote in 1711 in the first article<\/a> in the first issue of the first version of The Spectator<\/em>, \u2018that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with Pleasure, \u2019till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an Author.\u2019<\/p>\n

Thomas Chatterton Williams<\/a> has earned a reputation as a tough, thoughtful and genuinely interesting commentator on race. In an influential 2015 essay in the London Review of Books<\/em>, he criticized Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a> for discounting the individual autonomy of black Americans. In a 2017 op-ed for the New York Times<\/em> he argued that the essentialism of leftist identity politics<\/a> is dangerously similar to that of white nationalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019s first book, Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man\u2019s Escape from the Crowd<\/em><\/a> (2010), was a memoir of growing up as the son of a white mother and a black father from the segregated South. His extraordinary, self-taught father filled their small house with thousands of books and tutored his sons daily to ensure they would succeed…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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