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Self-Portrait in Black and White
- Unlearning Race
- De: Thomas Chatterton Williams
- Narrado por: Thomas Chatterton Williams
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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....
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Honest self-portrait of identity
- De Wayne en 06-18-20
- Self-Portrait in Black and White
- Unlearning Race
- De: Thomas Chatterton Williams
- Narrado por: Thomas Chatterton Williams
Clear thinking as counterculture
Revisado: 11-30-19
Williams is a gifted thinker and writer, which makes his attention to this topic a real and important contribution. His background in philosophy lends itself well to the discussion and his familiarity with Ellison, Crouch, and Baldwin are noticeable at certain points in the book.
Sadly, these great writers are largely ignored in America where individualism is drowned out by hollow intersectionality and its illogical companion, collectivism.
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