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Self-Portrait in Black and White Unlearning Race

Thomas Chatterton Williams

A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves,

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The Megyn Kelly Show

It was about unlearning race and it was meant to highlight the issue of seeing everything through the racial lens. The conversation needs to go deeper than that.

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I'm going back to sort of the like the Thomas Chatterton Williams unlearning race, like unlearn it, unlearn it.

— Episode: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt...

Episode: Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch on...

It was about unlearning race and it was meant to highlight the issue of seeing everything through the racial lens. The conversation needs to go deeper than that.

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I'm going back to sort of the like the Thomas Chatterton Williams unlearning race, like unlearn it, unlearn it.

Episode: Thomas Chatterton Williams on the Authoritarian Le...

It was discussed as a counterpoint to Robin DiAngelo's work on race and was praised for its approach of 'unlearning race'. It was mentioned as a book that encourages a different view on race relations.

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His most recent book is called Self-Portrait in Black and White, Unlearning Race.

The book that you're referring to, your second book, is called Unlearning Race.

Self-portrait of Black and White, Unlearning Race, yeah.

In that, you do make the point that we need to de-emphasize race to progress as a culture, that racism creates race, not the other way around.

My book is an argument for why we can't just be anti-racist as is the fashion now by kind of digging deeper into our racial identities, but we actually have to be anti-race and try to transcend these divisions.

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