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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 lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race. With her trademark elegant prose and critical legal studies wisdom, Williams brings to bear a keen analytic eye and a lawyer's training to chapters exploring the ways we have legislated the ownership of everything from body parts to gene sequences--and the particular ways in which our laws in these areas isolate nonnormative looks, minority cultures, and out-of-the-box thinkers. At the heart of ""Wrongful Birth"" is a lawsuit in which a white couple who use a sperm bank sue when their child ""comes out Black."" And ""Hot Cheeto Girl"" examines the way that algorithms give rise to new predictive categories of human assortment, layered with market-inflected cages of assigned destiny. The Miracle of the Black Leg offers a brilliant meditation on the tricky place where law, science, ethics, and cultural slippage collide.

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Patricia J. Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law Emerita at Columbia Law School and the longtime former ""Diary of a Mad Law Professor"" columnist for The Nation. She is a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize, a MacArthur fellow, and the author of six books, including The Alchemy of Race and Rights, Open House, and The Miracle of the Black Leg. She is currently a University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University in Boston, where she lives. A professional singer, dancer, and actor, Carmen Jewel Jones has voiced commercial and industrial projects as well as numerous audiobooks. Her versatile voice brings to life characters in many genres of fiction. Carmen Jewel holds a BFA in theater arts from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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