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Using the tools of critical, literary and legal theory in this autobiographical work, the author sets out her views of contemporary popular culture and current events, from civil rights to Oprah Winfrey. She also traces the workings of "ordinary racism" - everyday occurrences, casual, unintended, banal perhaps, but mortifying. Taking up the metaphor of alchemy, Williams casts the law in a mythological text in which the powers of commerce and the Constitution, wealth and poverty, sanity and insanity, wage war across complex and overlapping boundaries of discourse. The author is a lawyer and great-great granddaughter of a slave.

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Williams melds sophisticated legal scholarship, memoir and allegory into a rich melange that will change perceptions about the substance and spirit of black women...At a time when the nation is wrestling with political correctness or wrongness...Williams' candor about the law and her life is refreshing..."The Alchemy of Race and Rights" brings jurisprudence to the people while leaving no doubt that the author is among the finest legal talents among us.--Evelyn C. White "San Francisco Chronicle "
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Patricia J. Williams is Professor of Law, Columbia University.

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  • PublisherVirago
  • Publication date1993
  • ISBN 10 1853816744
  • ISBN 13 9781853816741
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages272
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