Books by Patricia J. Williams

To a culture speaking with barely masked hysteria, this book brings a voice of reason and a reminder of the decency that is missing from so much of our public debate. Patricia J. Williams addresses the wounds in America's public soul, and uncovers the shifting, often covert rules of conversation that determine who "we" are as a nation.

Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class.