Patricia J Williams
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black man's leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race. With her trademark elegant prose and critical legal studies wisdom, Williams brings to bear a keen analytic eye...
Author
Publisher
TLS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The story of slavery in America is not over. It lives on in how we speak to one another, in how we treat one another, in how our societies are organised. In this book, legal scholar Patricia Williams finds that when you begin to unpack current debates around immigration, freedom of speech, the culture wars and wall-building, beneath them lies the unexamined history of enslavement in the West. Our ability to dehumanize one another can be traced all...
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