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Title: The Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia J. Williams ISBN: 0-674-01471-5 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous Book for the Open-Minded
Comment: This is an extraordinary book. Through the use of a wide array of reasoning and writing methods, Williams makes it possible for us to get a glimpse of the dangerous and contradictory legal world that ethnic minorities must negotiate to survive. It may be a bit of a stretch for people unaccustomed to thinking outside the box as well as those unfamilar with literature and literary theory. But the insight Williams offers is well worth the effort. It also provides members of the privileged class with the unusual & valuable experience of not being the central focus of the text. A fabulous experience for readers with an open mind!
Rating: 5
Summary: amazing :)
Comment: the alchemy of race and rights is truly an amazing book - williams weaves legal theorizing, theorizing about the nature of subjectivity, race theory, and literary analysis into an incredibly *human* book which is beautifully crafted.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Widely Read Manifesto of Regressive Race Relations
Comment: A great deal of discourse has come out of the use of this book in my law class on the interaction of law in society, but I find it's use counter-productive to the forward-thinking goals of most academic institutions. Prof. Williams cannot seem to make up her mind on anything. She attacks Marxist lawyers, while at the same time advocating an affront to the bourgeoise, especially those without black skin (whites, Hispanics and Asians are all vilified to some degree in this book). While masquerading as a socialist activist herself, she then advocates a very right-wing goal of keeping each other in our respective racial boxes to keep order, even refusing to accept that she herself can be at once black, female and educated -- these three identities always appear separately for her. Her book is a regressive look at the future that denies the possibility of progress in race and gender relations. She is sadly unable to employ the power in her rights and instead prefers to wallow in a viscious cycle that refuses to recognize nuance, and prefers rather to assume racial categories, because they are simpler. Very few new ideas are presented in this racist, ethnically intolerant and misandric text and it is hardly worth a read, beyond the fact that it may come up in discussion.
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Title: American Hunger by Richard Wright ISBN: 0060909919 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 December, 1982 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race by Patricia J. Williams ISBN: 0374525331 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: If He Hollers Let Him Go: A Novel by Chester Himes ISBN: 1560254459 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin ISBN: 067974472X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Juneteenth: A Novel by Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan ISBN: 0375707549 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 13 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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