Thomas Chatterton Williams
Autor de Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture
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Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture (1994) — Autor — 181 copias
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- Williams, Thomas Chatterton
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1981-03-26
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educación
- Georgetown University (BA|Philosophy)
New York University. (MA) - Agente
- Elyse Cheney
- Biografía breve
- Thomas Chatterton Williams holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a master's degree from the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York Universit. He has written for the Washington Post and n+1. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. [from Losing My Cool (2010)]
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- #71,381
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A contemplation, a memoir, but overall an indictment, of race -not racism, not race-because-people-think-race-is-real, but race itself- couched in and springing from William's having "white" (or able-to-pass, or Black, or ???) children.
It may sound crazy to say it, here in late 2020, with Trump still in the running for a second term, with police shootings and Black Lives Matter firmly in the zeitgeist, with Twitter frenzies and blasts and counter-blasts from e.g. the NYT opinion pages about cancel culture, wokeness, White privilege, and all the rest... but, maybe the time is about to right for something like the message here. Not colorblindness, not Identity Uber Alles, not wokeness, not reaction, but a hard look at racism and race, and an imminently reasonable question (Williams puts it so much better): Why the fuck are we still doing race, indeed actively enforcing race on people (anywhere, but not least as part of "anti-racism"?)… (más)