Thomas Chatterton Williams on Race, Identity, and a Writer’s Vocation
Hardly Working with Brent Orrell · American Enterprise Institute
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Show Notes
In this episode of Hardly Working, Brent Orrell is joined by AEI nonresident fellow and cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams. Williams’s two books Losing My Cool, published in 2010 and Self Portrait in Black and White, published in 2019, tie together personal memoir and philosophy to provide a fresh perspective on America’s history of racial discrimination and present reckoning with defining race and understanding its impacts. Williams discusses the importance of liberal arts education in shaping his own vocation, his motivation for writing, and importantly, his philosophy on race and identity in America.
Mentioned During the Show
Thomas Chatterton Williams’ AEI Webpage
Self-Portrait in Black and White
Chatterton on Searching for Plato with His Daughter
Bard Prison Initiative Documentary
France’s “Color-Blind” Race Policy
The Common Ground of Human Dignity