Alchemy of Race and Rights

Patricia J. Williams

    PART I:
    Excluding Voices: A Necklace of Thoughts on the Ideology of Style

    1. The Brass Ring and the Deep Blue Sea
    2. Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt
    3. The Death of the Profane

    PART II:
    Trial by Text: A Sequence of Sublimation

    4. Teleology on the Rocks
    5. Crimes Without Passion
    6. The Obliging Shell

    PART 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

    PART IV:
    The Incorruptible Simplicity of Being: A String of Crystalline Paroles

    10. Owning the Self in a Disowned World
    11. Arm's-Length Intimacies
    12. On Being the Object of Property

    Notes

    A Word on Categories

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Alchemy of Race and Rights
  • A photo of the author

Patricia J. Williams is Professor of Law, Columbia University.