Uncensored : my life and uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of black and white America / Zachary R. Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Zachary R., author.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street life.

Poor children.

Urban poor.

Social conditions.

Race relations.

Washington (D.C.)--Social conditions.

Washington (D.C.).

United States--Race relations--21st century.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Wood, Zachary R.

Wood, Zachary R--Political and social views.

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

Interpersonal communication.

Interpersonal relations.

Urban poor--Washington (D.C.)--Social conditions.

Poor children--Washington (D.C.).

Street life--Washington (D.C.).

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Dutton, [2018]

Summary:

“As the president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at Williams College, Zachary Wood knows all about intellectual controversy. From John Derbyshire to Charles Murray, there's no one Zach refuses to debate or engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs--sometimes vehemently so--and this controversial view has given him a unique platform on college campuses and in the media. But Zach has never shared the details of his own personal story, and how he came to be a crusader for open dialogue and free speech. In Uncensored, he reveals for the first time how he grew up poor and black in Washington, DC, in an environment where the only way to survive was to resist the urge to write people off because of their backgrounds and their perspectives. By sharing his troubled upbringing--from a difficult early childhood filled with pain, uncertainty, and conflict to the struggles of code-switching between his home in a rough neighborhood and his elite private school--Zach makes a compelling argument for a new way of interacting with others, in a nation and a world that has never felt more polarized. In Uncensored, he hopes to foster a new outlook on society's most difficult conversations, both on campus and across the country.”--Page [2] of cover.

There's no one Wood refuses to debate or engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs-- sometimes vehemently so- and this controversial view has given him a unique platform on college campuses and in the media. Here he shares the details of his own personal story growing up poor and black in Washington, D.C., and how he came to be a crusader for open dialogue and free speech. He hopes to foster a new outlook on society's most difficult conversations, both on campus and across the country. -- adapted from jacket.

“As the president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at Williams College, Zachary Wood knows all about intellectual controversy. From John Derbyshire to Charles Murray, there's no one Zach refuses to debate or engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs--sometimes vehemently so--and this controversial view has given him a unique platform on college campuses and in the media. But Zach has never shared the details of his own personal story, and how he came to be a crusader for open dialogue and free speech. In Uncensored, he reveals for the first time how he grew up poor and black in Washington, DC, in an environment where the only way to survive was to resist the urge to write people off because of their backgrounds and their perspectives. By sharing his troubled upbringing--from a difficult early childhood filled with pain, uncertainty, and conflict to the struggles of code-switching between his home in a rough neighborhood and his elite private school--Zach makes a compelling argument for a new way of interacting with others, in a nation and a world that has never felt more polarized. In Uncensored, he hopes to foster a new outlook on society's most difficult conversations, both on campus and across the country.”--Page [2] of cover.

Contents:

Crossroads

Dads' Day

One call

Starting over again

Comeback route

The void

Gravity

Circling

Friday nights

Shoulder to the wheel

Evolution.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781524742447

1524742449

OCLC:

1035945181

Publisher Number:

99977122299