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Author Williams, Patricia J., 1951-

Title The alchemy of race and rights / Patricia J. Williams
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991

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Description 263 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents I. Excluding Voices: A Necklace of Thoughts on the Ideology of Style -- 1. The Brass Ring and the Deep Blue Sea -- 2. Gilded Lillies and Liberal Guilt -- 3. The Death of the Profane -- II. Trial by Text: A Sequence of Sublimination -- 4. Teleology on the Rocks -- 5. Crimes Without Passion -- 6. The Obliging Shell -- III. Ladder to the Light: A Series of Hinged Turning Points -- 7. Fire and Ice -- 8. The Pain of Word Bondage -- 9. Mirrors and Windows -- IV. The Incorruptible Simplicity of Being: A String of Crystalline Parables -- 10. Owning the Self in a Disowned World -- 11. Arm's-Length Intimacies -- 12. On Being the Object of Property
Summary Diary of a law professor
Analysis Black persons Rights
United States
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-255) and index
Subject Williams, Patricia J., 1951-
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Critical legal studies -- United States.
Feminist criticism -- United States.
Law teachers -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
LC no. 90048439
ISBN 0674014707
0674014715 (paperback)