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Self-Portrait in Black and White
Thomas Chatterton Williams
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In "Self-Portrait in Black and White," Williams challenges racial categorization through his own journey as a mixed-race father whose blonde daughter defies traditional identity boxes. A thought-provoking New York Times editor's exploration that asks: What if transcending racism requires abandoning race itself?

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When Blue Eyes Shatter Everything You Believe

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The maternity ward in Paris was quiet when Marlow arrived, but inside Thomas Chatterton Williams' chest, a storm was brewing. His newborn daughter's blue eyes-eyes he knew would stay blue-stared back at him with an innocence that felt almost accusatory. "What have you done?" a voice whispered from somewhere deep inside. For a man raised on the American gospel of the "one-drop rule"-that any trace of Black ancestry makes you Black-this blonde, pale child in his arms rendered everything he believed suddenly absurd. How could he call himself Black when his daughter, carrying his genes, would never be seen that way? This wasn't just new-parent anxiety. It was the beginning of an intellectual earthquake that would crack open every certainty he'd built his identity upon. In a country still wrestling with racial division, where both left and right cling to rigid categories, Williams offers something rare: a willingness to question the very foundation of how we see each other.

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