Open House

By Patricia J. Williams

Open House: Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own

By Patricia J. Williams

"Renowned columnist Patricia J. Williams shares her frank and personal views on contemporary American culture. She relates stories about the many facets of her life - as a lawyer, scholar, writer,...

Seeing A Colorblind Future Paradox of race

By Patricia J. Williams

In these five pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might achieve a world where color doesn't matter - where whiteness is not equate...

Alchemy of Race and Rights

By Patricia J. Williams

Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor

By Patricia J. Williams

The Rooster's Egg

By Patricia J. Williams

In these pages we encounter figures and images plucked from headlines -from Tonya Harding to Lani Guinier, Rush Limbaugh to Hillary Clinton, Clarence Thomas to Dan Quayle - and see how their portra...

The Rooster's Egg

By Patricia J. Williams

Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power

By Toni Morrison

It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme C...

Saint Francis and the Franciscans

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Encountering a Different World while Caring for a Parent with Dementia

By Patricia J. Williams