Patricia Williams on Martha S. Jones's The Trouble of Color

Patricia J. Williams, recipient of a 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-fiction, talks with Michael Kelleher about Martha S. Jones's The Trouble of Color.

Patricia J. Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts. A longtime former “Diary of a Mad Law Professor” columnist for The Nation, Williams is also the author of six books of nonfiction including most recently The Miracle of the Black Leg. A MacArthur fellow (2000), Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law Emerita at Columbia Law School. She is currently a University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University.

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