12 - Thomas Chatterton Williams - Unlearning Race
Two for Tea Podcast
English - January 06, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 115 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
1:52 Why Thomas doesn’t use the term mixed race
10:21 Perception that being brown/black is synonymous with oppression
15:08 Whiteness
16:12 Skin colour inheritance
20:35 The importance of representation; links between race and class
27:44 Hip hop as performative blackness
33:40 “Acting white”
34:48 Mixed race identity as an opportunity
37:15 The yearning for belonging
40:05 Adrian Piper
42:15 Ancestral guilt and ‘worshipping the wound’
50:47 The rejection of optimism
53:07 What prompted Thomas to write Self-Portrait in Black and White
56:18 Thomas reads an extract from the book
1:03:57 Richard Spencer, the European far right, & the identity politics arms race
1:09:44 Culture & multiculturalism
1:11:55 White guilt
1:15:21 Transcending the mental habits of race
Thomas Chatterton Williams' memoir "Losing My Cool" is available here:
https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Chatterton-Williams/e/B0035FEJHC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race (2019):
https://www.amazon.com/Self-Portrait-Black-White-Unlearning-Race/dp/0393608867
You can read an extract from his upcoming book, "Self Portrait in Black and White" here:
https://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2015/01/black-and-blue-and-blond
For more of Thomas's writings, see:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/magazine/adrian-pipers-self-imposed-exile-from-america-and-from-race-itself.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/the-french-origins-of-you-will-not-replace-us
and
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/ta-nehisi-coates-whiteness-power.html?_r=0 ….
Follow Thomas on Twitter at @thomaschattwill.
Additional References
For more on Adrian Piper:
http://www.adrianpiper.com/
Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018)
John H. McWhorter, “Antiracism: Our Flawed New Religion” (2015)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/antiracism-our-flawed-new-religion
The preface to Iona’s piece on mixed race themes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdUunlGWqrw&t=17s