The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law

by Patricia J. Williams

Brilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnist--aka the Mad Law Professor--tackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillance, and more

Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black man's leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620978164
• ISBN13: 9781620978160
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.6"