Patricia J. Williams

Patricia J. Williams is the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster's Egg; and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. She is a also a columnist for The Nation.

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Author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights and a columnist for The Nation.

Blackstone Weekly is definitely what cyberspace does best: It allows quirky, wonderful, original thinkers the freedom to flourish, to publish. The muse behind this site is Jessie Allen, a performance artist-turned-lawyer who until recently worked for the Brennan Center for Justice, arguing voting-rights cases. For reasons one must assign to the inscrutable wonders of “intellectual curiosity,” she decided to take on the task of reading all of Blackstone’s Commentaries. She’s plowing through one section at a time and is posting bi-monthly reflection pieces on each section. Sound boring? Not for a minute: Her peculiarly fanciful and interdisciplinary view of the world makes these meditations nothing less than fascinating. Amazingly lyrical, wise, and funny stuff floats through Ms. Allen’s brain-on-Blackstone; from sewing a lion costume for her daughter, walking the streets of Denver on Election Day, or the relation of law and memory.

7:47 am, Feb 15, 2009

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