Description: These five eloquent and passionate pieces, delivered as the prestigious 1997 Reith Lectures for the BBC, ask how we might achieve a world where color doesn't matter", where white is not equated with normalcy or black with exoticism and danger. Drawing on her own experience. Patricia J. Williams writes of the great divide between 'the poles of other people's imagination and the center of oneself where dignity resides" and discusses how the gulf between those two places might be bridged as a first step toward resolving racism. Written with wit, strength, and a will to heal, Williams's lectures offer a new starting point --" a sensible and sustained consideration" -- from which we might start to deal honestly with the legacy and current realities of our prejudices.

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