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

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Lit Hub, July 2025

Mike chats with Patricia Williams, recipient of a 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, about Martha S. Jones’s The Trouble of Color—and about what Martha was like as a first-year law student in Patricia’s class.

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