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Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor

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Description for Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor Paperback. This book, by a lawyer and professor of commercial law who is the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer, is both an argument for affirming group claims in the legal vocabulary and a description of the seemingly ineluctable status of black people in the US. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 296.

Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class. Using the tools of critical literary and legal theory, she sets out her views of contemporary popular culture and current events, from Howard Beach to homelessness, from Tawana Brawley to the law-school classroom, from civil rights to Oprah Winfrey, from Bernhard Goetz to Mary Beth Whitehead. She also traces the workings of “ordinary racism”—everyday occurrences, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Weight
295g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674014718
SKU
V9780674014718
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About Patricia J. Williams
Patricia J. Williams is James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.

Reviews for Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor
Williams is an original and imaginative mind, an unstultified, insubordinate thinker who jumps off cliffs and lands on her feet, who flies close to the sun and never melts her wings. She accomplishes the near impossible: simultaneous depth of engagement in law and world. The alchemical forge she theorizes between race and rights parallels her own method: ‘the making of ... Read more

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