Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

基本信息

Format:Paperback 208 pages

Imprint:W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN:9780393358544

Published:29 Sep 2020

Classifications:Literature & literary studies

Weight:170g

Dimensions:208 x 147 (mm)

Language:English

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書籍簡介

The son of a "black" father and a "white" mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter-and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else. In telling the story of his family's multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white, he reckons with the way we choose to see and define ourselves. Self-Portrait in Black and White is a beautifully written, urgent work for our time.

托馬斯·查特頓·威廉姆斯的父親是“黑人”，母親是“白人”。生下金髮碧眼的女兒後，他開始質疑自己長期以來對種族的信念，並逐漸意識到，這些分類既不能充分地涵蓋他們兩人，也不能涵蓋任何人。在講述他的家庭幾代人從所謂的黑人轉變為被認為是白人的故事時，他考慮了我們選擇看待和定義自己的方式。《黑白自畫像》是我們這個時代寫得優美、緊迫的作品。

評論

"Thomas Chatterton Williams' Self-Portrait in Black and White is a gorgeously written and deeply knowledgeable account of fatherhood, identity, and race. Tender and probing, respectful of intellectual disagreement and of the raw emotions these subjects can stir, it nevertheless proceeds fearlessly and rigorously toward his own original and challenging conclusions. This is a book that will surely provoke, inform, and move readers, regardless of where they stand on the political and philosophical divide." -- Phil Klay, author of Redeployment

"This small book poses a very large question: How to become a self? Williams uses his own story to remind us that inner freedom depends on escaping the insidious categories of history and the suffocating cliches of the present. It is a stirring call to genuine liberation." -- Mark Lilla, author of The Once and Future Liberal

"With Self-Portrait in Black and White Thomas Chatterton Williams has given us an elegantly rendered and trenchantly critical reflection on 'race' and identity-one that is perfectly suited to our time. This is a subtle, unsettling, and brave book. Using his own journey through life as point of departure, Williams launches a major assault on the conventional wisdom about racial categorization in America. Not only does he envision a New World; he dares to point the way toward how we all might yet arrive on those uncharted shores." -- Glenn Loury, professor of economics and faculty fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University

"Thomas Chatterton Williams has written a brave and powerful book that I could not put down. At a time when white supremacy is resurgent in many countries, should we fight it by insisting on the equality of the races or the elimination of race as a social and biological category? It is a question that needs to be asked and a debate that needs to be had." -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America

托馬斯·查特頓·威廉姆斯(Thomas Chatterton Williams)在《黑人與白人》中對自己的形象進行了描寫，對父親的身份、身份和種族進行了深入瞭解。這本書温柔而深入，尊重理智上的分歧，尊重這些主題所能激起的原始情感，但它卻毫無畏懼地、嚴格地朝着他自己獨創的、具有挑戰性的結論前進。無論讀者站在政治和哲學的立場上，這本書肯定會激發、告知和感動他們。”——Phil Klay，《重新部署》的作者

這本小書提出了一個非常大的問題:如何成為自我?威廉姆斯用自己的故事提醒我們，內心的自由取決於擺脱歷史的險惡類別和令人窒息的陳詞濫調。這是真正解放的激動人心的呼聲。”——馬克·里拉，《曾經和未來的自由主義者》(The Once and Future Liberal)的作者

托馬斯·查特頓·威廉姆斯的《黑白自畫像》讓我們對“種族”和身份進行了優雅而尖鋭的批判性反思，非常適合我們這個時代。這是一本微妙的、令人不安的、勇敢的書。威廉姆斯以自己的人生旅程為出發點，對美國種族分類的傳統觀念發起了重大攻擊。他不僅構想了一個新世界;他敢於為我們指明道路，讓我們能夠到達那些未知的海岸。”——格倫·洛裏(Glenn Loury)，布朗大學(Brown University)沃森研究所(Watson Institute)經濟學教授和教員

托馬斯·查特頓·威廉姆斯寫了一本勇敢而有力的書，讓我愛不釋手。當白人至上主義在許多國家復甦的時候，我們是應該堅持種族平等，還是應該消除種族這一社會和生物範疇?這是一個需要提出的問題，是一個需要進行辯論的問題。——安妮-瑪麗·斯勞特，新美國首席執行官

作者簡介

Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of Losing My Cool and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, is a 2019 New America Fellow and the recipient of a Berlin Prize. He lives in Paris with his wife and children.

托馬斯·查特頓·威廉姆斯(Thomas Chatterton Williams)是《失去冷靜》(lose My Cool)一書的作者，也是《紐約時報雜誌》(New York Times Magazine)的特約撰稿人，他是2019年新美國會員，並獲得了柏林獎(Berlin Prize)。他和妻子兒女住在巴黎。