{"id":3363,"date":"2020-06-24T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:04:15","slug":"book-review-self-portrait-in-black-and-white-by-thomas-chatterton-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43726556-self-portrait-in-black-and-white\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43726556-self-portrait-in-black-and-white\">Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3184780.Thomas_Chatterton_Williams\">Thomas Chatterton Williams<\/a><br><br>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/3408967484\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>The author is the son of an African-American father and a Caucasian mother who married a (Caucasian) Frenchwoman and has two children. This book consists of his musings on race and identity and family.<br>It&#8217;s a well-written book that flows easily and, yet, at the same time, it&#8217;s not an easy book to read. If race is a social construct as many assert, then how does it play (or not play) into identity, society, and belonging?<br>The author discusses everything from whether it&#8217;s unethical for black people to procreate outside of race as opposed to strategically bonding together to Glenn Loury&#8217;s concept of racially transcendent humanism.<br>I suspect many people at the extreme left of the political spectrum would be unhappy with the author&#8217;s perspective on many issues relating to race and society. I will only say that this book adds a perspective and a voice that should be listened to with an open mind.<br><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams My rating: 4 of 5 stars The author is the son of an African-American father and a Caucasian mother who married a (Caucasian) Frenchwoman and has two children. This book consists of his musings on race and identity and family.It&#8217;s a well-written book that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,585,581,584,582],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-identity","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-thomas-chatterton-williams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-Sf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}