“Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black - and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain ideas of black heritage and racial identity in their mixed-race children, regardless of how they look.”

American cultural critic and writer

Thomas Chatterton Williams is an American cultural critic and writer. He is the author of Self-Portrait in Black and White, published in 2019, and a staff writer at The Atlantic. His work also includes writing for The New York Times Magazine and serving as an Easy Chair columnist for Harper's Magazine. He is a visiting professor of the humanities and a senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.