A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME 'MUST-READ' 'An
extraordinarily thought-provoking memoir that makes a controversial
contribution to the fraught debate on race and racism . . .
intellectually stimulating and compelling' SUNDAY TIMES 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
multi-generational 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 - but the shock of his experience as the black father
of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these
long-held convictions. It is not that he has come to believe that
he is no longer black or that his daughter is white, Williams
notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either
of them - or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and
bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black
and White is an urgent work for our time.
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