First Impressions Off Screen Conversations With A Bachelor On Race Family And Forgiveness Matt James by Matt James, Cole Brown 9781546002109, 9781546002086, 1546002103, 1546002081 instant download after payment.

Matt James, the 1st Black bachelor on ABC’s beloved TV show, The Bachelor, shares his views on the controversial topics that defined his season & confronts matters of race, opportunity, & his biracial identity head on.

When The Bachelor franchise announced Matt James as the first Black lead, it was celebrated as long-overdue progress on the primetime show. America fell in love with Matt—the Christian, former NFL athlete, & nonprofit CEO—who charmed millions of viewers each week. But the off-screen conversations around the show revealed the realities & inescapable challenges of being Black in America & the depth of racism that still exists.
 
On the show, Matt could only go so far in sharing his own story with America. In First Impressions, Matt shares his views on controversial topics like race & opportunity that defined his season on The Bachelor. Matt lives at the intersection of these important issues & shares the wisdom his experience has granted him.
 
Matt describes the joys & difficulties of being the youngest of 2 Black sons, raised by a single, working-class, white mother in Raleigh, North Carolina. He elaborates on the spiritual closeness & sense of duty he felt for his mother, but also the complex relationships he had with the many male figures in his life: his prejudiced, Italian grandfather, who had trouble accepting Matt as his own; his father, whose womanizing & petty crime put strain on the family; & his older brother, who was Matt’s protector in youth, but who struggled with the long shadow of their father’s legacy.
 
Simultaneously inspirational & informative, First Impressions will leave readers with a deeper understanding of the life experiences that prepared Matt for such a divisive moment in TV history.

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Cole Brown is an author, producer, & political commentator. His 1st book, Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.