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Self – Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

byThomas Chatterton Williams

Self examines portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, combining Thomas Chatterton Williams's clear narrative with the perspective of a novel. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of biography & autobiography and language arts & disciplines. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning.

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

Oct 15, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

192

ISBN

9780393608861