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Had a wonderful time talking with Otis Houston about some of the ideas in my forthcoming book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race (coming in the fall):

Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)
April 12

Thomas Chatterton Williams: "Identity is always a negotiation between the way that you see yourself and the way society and institutions see you. I can’t just w...alk out of the house and say I’m Japanese. But I can push back against the fact, for example, that in France where I live society projects on me an Arab identity. It makes no more sense for me to accept the Arab identity that strangers assume for me, than I think it would for my daughter to accept the white identity that strangers assume for her. She can push back against that projection."

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The Singular Power of Writing: A Conversation with Thomas Chatterton Williams - Los Angeles Review of Books
Otis Houston speaks to Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of “Losing My Cool” and “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.”

For any french readers, there's a wonderful review by Marc-Olivier Bherer of my memoir Une soudaine liberté in this weekend's Le Monde: "Face au mouvement de radicalisation des intellectuels noirs aux Etats-Unis, Thomas Chatterton Williams fait partie des voix qui s’élèvent contre la tentation du communautarisme. Le courageux examen auquel il se livre est un miroir qui nous est tendu."

For Any French people, there's a wonderful review by Marc-Olivier Bherer of my memoir a sudden freedom in this weekend'S @[14892757589:274:Le Monde]: " against the movement of radicalization of black intellectuals in the United States, Thomas Chatterton Williams is part of it Voices that rise against the temptation of the communalism. The brave exam to which he delivers is a mirror that is tense to us."
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« Une soudaine liberté » : une masculinité malsaine chez les Afro-Américains
L’écrivain et journaliste américain Thomas Chatterton Williams raconte dans un livre comment il a dû, au début de sa vie d’adulte, s’affranchir de certains codes de la virilité noire, venus notamment du hip-hop.
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