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Using the tools of critical, literary and legal theory in this autobiographical work, the author sets out her views of contemporary popular culture and current events, from civil rights to Oprah Winfrey. She also traces the workings of "ordinary racism" - everyday occurrences, casual, unintended, banal perhaps, but mortifying. Taking up the metaphor of alchemy, Williams casts the law in a mythological text in which the powers of commerce and the Constitution, wealth and poverty, sanity and insanity, wage war across complex ...

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The Alchemy of Race and Rights 1993, Virago Press Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9781853816741

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Mass-market paperback

The Alchemy of Race and Rights 1992, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674014718

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Alchemy of Race and Rights 1991, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674014701

Hardcover