Self-Portrait in Black and White - Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

The son of a "black" father and a "white" mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter-and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else. In telling the story of his family's multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white, he reckons with the way we choose to see and define ourselves. Self-Portrait in Black and White is a beautifully written, urgent work for our time.

About the author

Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Losing My Cool and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, is a 2019 New America Fellow and the recipient of a Berlin Prize. He lives in Paris with his wife and children.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Chatterton Williams
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2020
• EAN: 9780393358544
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35854-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 177 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Ethnic Studies, Autobiography: general, Memoirs, Social and cultural history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity