Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393608867
• ISBN13: 9780393608861
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"