Pent-up white racism did fire Mr. Trump's candidacy, and he happily fanned the flames. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
A powerful way to sidestep America's reluctance to become postracial would be for more black Americans to become postnational. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I consciously learned and performed my race like a teacher's pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
The idea that a person can be both black and white - and at the same time neither - is novel in… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I write a lot about race precisely because I don't believe it's real. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Being fired for bad performance or for having an alter ego that posts incredibly racist stuff is not cancel culture. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black - and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Most so-called 'black' people do not feel themselves at liberty to simply turn off or ignore their allotted racial designation, whether they… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I lament that Paris can be a threatening space for Jews, Roma, Africans and Arabs, but the truth is, as a black… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Like neurotics obsessed with amputating their own healthy limbs, middle-class blacks concerned with 'keeping it real' are engaging in gratuitously self-destructive and… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
There are few things more American than falling back on the language of race when what we're really talking about is class… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
What I know now is that I used to not just tolerate but submit to and even on some deep level need… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Yet exactly what constitutes privilege and disadvantage can be counterintuitive: There is no metric to take into account the casual racism that… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
The problem of racial difference in America - and in modern life more broadly - is always presented as an economic, political,… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Racism is a perceptive error, and what you actually have to do is you have to get into spaces where you're meeting… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Pent-up white racism did fire Mr. Trump's candidacy, and he happily fanned the flames. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
I do think that some form of reparations for the descendants of American slavery would go a long way. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind her. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
I've been socially deemed black in America, and this is a category that's been hurting my family for generations and that has also led… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
The French, whose fascination with 19th-century Japanese painting and decorative art led them to coin the term 'Japonisme,' have reciprocated the interest, and the… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White people do… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
I had the benefit, I'll say it, of coming up behind my brother and seeing what he went through and just simply trying do… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
It is mind-blowing to pause and think that a film as forward-facing and potent as 'Do the Right Thing' was released the same year… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
I write a lot about race precisely because I don't believe it's real. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
If the first year of the Trump administration has made anything clear, it's that experience, knowledge, education and political wisdom matter tremendously. Governing is… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
Traveling through France in regular times, for better or worse, I am simply perceived as an American. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share
