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Alchemy of Race and Rights [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Patricia J. Williams
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  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 272 Seiten
  • Verlag: Harvard University Press (April 1991)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0674014707
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674014701
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,6 x 16 x 2,5 cm
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In a personal and profound examination of the United States legal system and its effect on African Americans, Patricia J. Williams uses the term alchemy--the medieval, mysterious practice of turning base metal into gold--as a haunting metaphor for the nearly mystical process by which United States law emboldens and endangers blacks through arcane interpretation, as well as the heroic will of a people to make those laws manifest. "I'm interested in the way in which the legal language flattens and confines in absolutes the complexity of meaning inherent in any given problem," she writes. "I am trying to challenge the usual limits of commercial discourse by using an intentionally double-voiced and relational, rather than a traditionally legal black letter, vocabulary."

With an authorial voice that draws upon Williams's perspective as teacher, lawyer, black American, and woman, The Alchemy of Race and Rights uses a palette of court cases, educational encounters, and personal experiences--including her discovery of her slave ancestor and her interactions with school deans over how to teach law--to create a literary cubist portrait detailing the rhetoric and reality that color the complexion of American justice. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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Williams melds sophisticated legal scholarship, memoir and allegory into a rich melange that will change perceptions about the substance and spirit of black women...At a time when the nation is wrestling with political correctness or wrongness...Williams' candor about the law and her life is refreshing..."The Alchemy of Race and Rights" brings jurisprudence to the people while leaving no doubt that the author is among the finest legal talents among us.--Evelyn C. White "San Francisco Chronicle "

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I recently had the pleasure of re-reading this remarkable book. Over the past half-century, it is no doubt one of the most important books on race published in the United States. The author blends autobiography, keen visual observations, analysis, and heart into a powerful journey through the landscape of American race relations. The result is utterly convincing: the convergence of the "personal and the political" moves each reader to examine his or her own relationship to the subjects at hand. While most race books pontificate, this one eases the reader into examining some very difficult, indeed painful questions. Williams, a writer of great skill and elegance, has pulled off a miricale in the field of race writing, an enduring masterpiece that has changed the way we think and talk about race in America.
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an interesting attempt 13. Mai 1999
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I have read her 'Diary of a Mad Law Prof.' in The Nation with considerable interest. I really don't think she is one of the brightest bulbs in contemporary Black discourse, and I gladly turn to bell hooks and even Cornell West when I want some heady discussion of racism and the white attitudes that persist in this society. Williams seems to me one of those well meaning people who unfortunately have produced a somewhat simple-minded book, and yet it could serve as a useful corrective to similarly simple-minded books from the conservative side of things, especially Shelby Steele and co. Overall, this book has little to teach anyone actively involved in changing attitudes, but it is a fair attempt nonetheless.
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Patricia Williams uses convoluted analogies to illustrate her assertions that greatly detract from her book. She openly admits that she is a legal collectivist in the traditional sense with a strong belief in maintaining group rights, group priveleges, group responsibilities, etc. Famous legal collectivists in the past have included VI Lenin, Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, General Mengitsu, General Pinochet, Idi Amin, and Mao. They also were fervent believers in group rights, group guilt, and group punishment. The Nuremberg Race Laws (1936) in Germany are a fine example of legal collectivism taken to its logical extreme.
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