https://www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com/media daily 0.75 2019-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564576625956-GVLVV5I5KMACOZ0KNX1K/image-asset.jpeg Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564576625956-GVLVV5I5KMACOZ0KNX1K/image-asset.jpeg Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564583235907-L4IYSK8360FRA5EC4NZZ/Screen+Shot+2019-07-31+at+4.26.54+PM.png Media - Kirkus Reviews A standout memoir that digs into vital contemporary questions of race and self-image—among the most relevant, “What is proximity to the idea of whiteness worth and what does color cost? And the reverse?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564583043595-VH0S4XQHRO1LX6FGJATD/logo-trans.png Media - Publisher's Weekly “[A] provocative philosophical argument about the role of race in human identity. … Regardless of whether readers agree with his conclusions, these essays are intellectually rigorous, written in fluid prose, and frequently exhilarating.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564576675455-3XZN52FER911RY4BW54W/image-asset.jpeg Media - Fellow Spotlight: Thomas Chatterton Williams https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/5d41775e37e670000190f77a/5d418b70786fc00001498be9/1564576624191/ Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564576624867-AIMY1A475SBR5PQE7TJW/image-asset.jpeg Media https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/5d41775e37e670000190f77a/5d418b7120f10d000179f206/1564576624964/ Media - Fellow Spotlight: Thomas Chatterton Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564576625564-ZOBM5YJ6LVAOTFCKW73V/image-asset.jpeg Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564576625474-CHXKQ2741981WKIK916N/image-asset.jpeg Media - Fellow Spotlight: Thomas Chatterton Williams https://www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com/home daily 1.0 2017-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1613738094846-K3PG5LPQPZ0BAUNAHVGB/SELF-PORTRAITpb_postpub+fb_r2.png Home https://www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com/about daily 0.75 2024-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/204ee429-b85a-42cb-a9c7-f27dbaefe4dc/DSCF4204-2.jpeg About Thomas Brunot https://www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com/books daily 0.75 2019-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564581415701-50JEXP3FBGSJCFKYSOW3/Self+Portrait+in+Black+and+White+978-0-393-60886-1.jpg Books “A standout memoir that digs into vital contemporary questions of race and self-image....succeeds spectacularly for three main reasons: the author’s relentlessly investigative thought process, consistent candor, and superb writing style. Almost every page contains at least one sentence so resonant that it bears rereading for its impact....An insightful, indispensable memoir.” - Kirkus (starred review) 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564582041940-P4WDB1LZSJOPX3XQAD87/losingmycoolphotocover.jpg Books “A provocative, intellectual memoir” (USA Today)—from a remarkable, new literary voice Growing up, there were three things in life that Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved—his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hip culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed to juggle two disparate lifestyles—“keeping it real” in his friends’ eyes and studying for the SATs under his father’s strict tutelage—until it all threatened to spin out of control. Written with remarkable candor and emotional depth, Losing My Coolportrays the allure and danger of hip-hop culture with the accuracy and authority of a true fan who’s lived through it all—as well as the saving grace of literature and the power of the bond between father and son. “A very talented writer…is transformed from a skinny teenager who shoots hoops, gets into bloody brawls and smacks his girlfriend, into a philosophy major and author. The credit goes to his father, a black man who came from a far grimmer background…[Williams] also realizes that he is free in a way his father never was, a revelation that strikes him as ‘both deeply tragic and extremely hopeful.’ So is this book.”—New York Times Book Review https://www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564584460314-E7P51GX9SF6A7H6VR0GL/IMG_4094.JPG Contact https://www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com/reporting daily 0.75 2019-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564589967129-0WL223SKOPZ3RTM4MUI8/1551115532113-LW_2018_454__01.jpeg Reporting - Garage Magazine A Fashion Story Set In Switzerland’s Most Eccentric Building https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564589005956-YSSIMH7T3CD27NI35N31/14mag-audiard-slideshow-slide-UQ89-superJumbo.png Reporting - New York Times Magazine Can ‘the French Scorsese’ Pull Off a Western? 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With “The Sisters Brothers,” he takes on the most American genre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564589709055-3ZVSBAYBE9V5FTYQL04B/29mag-29wideman-t_CA0-superJumbo.jpg Reporting - New York Times Magazine John Edgar Wideman Against the World Late in a career marked by both triumph and tragedy, the fiercely independent author has written a new book exploring the unsettling case of Emmett Till’s father — and the isolation of black men in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564589611956-MT3UYMYDH2K7WEM6ZU9F/02mag-02nawaz-t_CA0-superJumbo.jpg Reporting - New York Times Magazine Maajid Nawaz’s Radical Ambition The former Islamist has started a foundation to combat extremism among Muslims — and has made a lot of enemies in the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564589870970-CCNRC33L0ABU2XSYDY3V/27tmag-jones-slide-IOQ0-superJumbo.jpg Reporting - T The New York Times Style Magazine How Kim Jones Is Remaking the Dior Man Masculine or feminine? Street wear or couture? At the storied fashion house, its men’s designer delights in the spaces between. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564589159790-DUEHB993S3AR91K0CJ8C/10mag-10thread-t_CA0-superJumbo.jpg Reporting - New York Times Magazine The Culture Caught Up With Spike Lee — Now What? After more than three decades as a provocateur, the filmmaker has returned to the movie that made him famous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564588930264-JDCH9U9PJCPINO5OW2LU/Screen+Shot+2019-07-31+at+6.01.52+PM.png Reporting - New York Times Magazine Adrian Piper’s Show at MoMA is the Largest Ever for a Living Artist. Why Hasn’t She Seen It? The conceptual artist’s life and work push against the boundaries of race and identity in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564589476786-88LXZ2U4QTJLL9P365ZI/171204_r31031.jpg Reporting - The New Yorker The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us” The European thinkers behind the white-nationalist rallying cry. https://www.thomaschattertonwilliams.com/essays-criticism daily 0.75 2019-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564662107160-JGDE23OAXO7DKB4BIZM7/OB-WA585_bkrvzi_DV_20130117141812.jpg Essays + Criticism - Wall Street Journal Home Thoughts From Abroad A black writer sets out to discover where, if anywhere, African-Americans might feel at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564660268486-56ZTHO82DLVFQBGQDX9P/byron_kim_final.jpg Essays + Criticism - Virginia Quarterly Review Where does race fit in the construction of modern identity? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d41750bd0dfc70001728987/1564661696536-4ITR3K6MF5PVDDFY6SA3/BN-BE073_bkrvde_P_20140120185442-1.jpg Essays + Criticism - Wall Street Journal Book Review: 'A Dreadful Deceit,' by Jacqueline Jones For attempting to escape, a Maryland slave was flogged, burned with hot lard and finally asphyxiated. 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