My words are my alone valuables. ...

My words are my alone valuables.

Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights

Critical race theory has differentiated itself from traditional legal criticism in part at insisting on the importance of auto/biography in shaping legal doctrine and practice.(1) Many critical race theorists have opened biography and autobiography as literary devices in their criticism to demonstrate the relationship between form and easy in mind in legal thinking. (2) Drawing in succession the work of critical legal studies, critical race theory has demonstrated that who makes a legal decision shapes