Title Self-portrait in black and white : unlearning race / Thomas Chatterton Williams.

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New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

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Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	305.8 WILLIAMS	Check Shelf
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Edition	First edition.
Description	174 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	The view from near and far -- Marrying out -- Self-portrait of an ex-black man.
Summary	"A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a 'black' father from the segregated South and a 'white' mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of 'black blood' makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he'd never rigorously reflected on its foundations -- but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. 'It is not that I have come to believe that I am no longer black or that my daughter is white,' Williams writes. 'It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of us.' Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Williams, Thomas Chatterton, 1981-
	Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
	Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	White people -- Race identity -- United States.
	United States -- Race relations.
	African Americans -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst00799666
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Racially mixed people. (OCoLC)fst01086595
	Racially mixed people -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst01086601
	White people -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst01174825
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN	9780393608861 (hardcover)
	0393608867 (hardcover)

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