Seeing a Color-Blind Future
The Paradox of Race
-
- $11.99
-
- $11.99
Publisher Description
In these five eloquent and passionate 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 equated with normalcy and blackness with exoticism and danger. Drawing on her own experience, Williams delineates the great divide between "the poles of other people's imagination and the nice calm center of oneself where dignity resides," and discusses how it might be bridged as a first step toward resolving racism. Williams offers us a new starting point--"a sensible and sustained consideration"--from which we might begin to deal honestly with the legacy and current realities of our prejudices.
Customer Reviews
Should be mandatory reading
Intelligent, extremely well written, concise and to the point but really packs a punch. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, buy it, read it, think, think, think. Digest this book, let it inform your decisions, let it affect your thoughts and judgements, truly take to heart the depth and honesty of this book. Eye opening and heart wrenching.