Open House: Of Family Friends Food Piano Lessons and the Search for a Room of My Own

A warm and seductive meditation on the personal and political from a renowned columnist and one of the great theorists of race and law (Henry Louis Gates Jr.).. With her trademark wit and insight Patricia Williams relates stories from the many facets of her life--as a lawyer scholar writer African-American descendant of slaves mother and single fifty-something woman--always aware of the ironies inherent in situations where her many identities dont conform to societal expectations. The Open House of Williamss imagination takes us on a funny often provocative and entertaining journey which includes Oprah Williamss Aunt Mary who passed as white her Best White Friend and tips on how to eat a watermelon without fear of racial judgment.