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Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America

Hardcover – June 19, 2018

Rooted in his own powerful personal story, twenty-one-year-old Zachary Wood shares his dynamic perspective on free speech, race, and dissenting opinions--in a world that sorely needs to learn to listen.

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 beyond.

About the Author

Zachary R. Wood is an Assistant Editor at The Atlantic, a Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal, and a class of 2018 graduate of Williams College, where he served as president of Uncomfortable Learning, a student group that sparked national controversy for inviting provocative speakers to campus. His recent work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, HuffPost, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, Times Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. A Washington, DC, native, Wood currently resides in New York City.

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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Dutton (June 19, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1524742449
ISBN-13: 978-1524742447
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces

Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black & White

Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America

Hardcover – June 19, 2018

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