author results for Williams, Patricia,

Rabbit

Williams, Patricia — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Rabbit

Williams, Patricia, Amber, Jeannine — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature

""An absolute must-read"" – Shondaland

"[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor" – New York Times

They called her Rabbit.

Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched as her mother struggled to get by on charity, cons, and petty crimes. At age seven, Pat was taught to roll drunks for money. At twelve, she was targeted for sex by a man eight years her senior. By thirteen, she was pregnant. By fifteen, Pat was a mother of two.

Alone at sixteen, Pat was determined to make a better life for her children. But with no job skills and an eighth-grade education, her options were limited. She learned quickly that hustling and humor were the only tools she had to survive. Rabbit is an unflinching memoir of cinematic scope and unexpected humor. With wisdom and humor, Pat gives us a rare glimpse of what it's really like to be a black mom in America.

Freedom's Song

Williams, Patricia — Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT

Managing Secondary Classrooms

Williams, Patricia — Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT

Rabbit

Williams, Patricia, Amber, Jeannine — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work

"An absolute must-read" – Shondaland

"[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor" – New York Times

They called her Rabbit.

Doing Without Adam and Eve

Williams, Patricia A. — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT

The Supernatural

Hill, Douglas — Mon, 31 Jan 1966 00:00:00 GMT

Seeing A Color-blind Future

Williams, Patricia J. — Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT

The Alchemy of Race and Rights

Williams, Patricia J. — Fri, 31 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT

The Miracle of the Black Leg

Williams, Patricia J. — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

"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"; "Bodies in Law" explores the service of genetic ancestry testing companies to answer the question of who owns DNA. 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."--Publisher provided description.

Open House

Williams, Patricia J. — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The Rooster's Egg

Williams, Patricia J. — Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT

Ms. American Dream: A Memoir Of Making It, No Matter What

Williams-Lee, Patricia — Invalid Date

Slavery and the African American Story

Williams Dockery, Patricia — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

"The true story of Africans and African Americans in the United States, from their arrival up until 1850"--|cProvided by publisher.

Abolition and the African American Story

Williams Dockery, Patricia — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction from the African American point of view"-- Provided by publisher.

Museums of Natural History, and the People Who Work in Them

Williams, Patricia M. — Wed, 31 Jan 1973 00:00:00 GMT

Describes the purposes, contents, functions, and personnel of a natural history museum. Includes a list of such museums in the United States.

Ms. American Dream

Williams-Lee, Patricia — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

From the author of the acclaimed and "riveting" (HuffPost) memoir Rabbit and star of BET's The Ms. Pat Show, a heartfelt, raw, and hilarious new memoir about rising from strife to success, tackling obstacles, and celebrating your wins with a laugh.
"America is supposed to be the land of opportunity—where any poor kid can grow up to become a millionaire. That's the story. But I'ma tell you how it really went down."

Before she was the star of the Emmy-nominated smash sitcom The Ms. Pat Show, before the Netflix specials, sold-out tours, and her critically acclaimed memoir, Rabbit, Ms. Pat was a fifteen-year-old eighth-grade dropout raising two babies in one of Atlanta's poorest neighborhoods. With no mentor, no road map, and no safety net, she wasn't chasing the American Dream. She was told it wasn't meant for people like her.

If you'd seen her back then, you wouldn't have bet on a happy ending.

And yet...look at her now.

In Ms. American Dream, Ms. Pat picks up where Rabbit left off—chronicling the hard-fought climb from food stamps and Section 8 housing to television deals, Hollywood writers' rooms, and a suburban life so comfortable her doghouse has its own built-in washer and dryer.

In a country where the rich get richer and regular folks are told to "work harder," Ms. Pat learned the rules of a system that wasn't built for her to win. She outmaneuvered caseworkers, bill collectors, con artists, and hustlers. She found her place in an industry where she was told she didn't belong.

Raw, fearless, and laugh-out-loud funny, Ms. American Dream is not your average rags-to-riches Hollywood story—it's a sharp, hilarious look at class, strategy, and reinvention.

Rabbit

Williams, Patricia (Comedian) — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

The comedian, actress, and writer examines her life and career from the depths of the hood to success on the entertainment stage.

While They're Still Here

Williams, Patricia (Dental hygienist) — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

"After a lifetime of strained bonds with her aging parents, Patricia Williams finds herself in the unexpected position of being their caregiver and neighbor. Dodging the fine lines between service and servant, guardian and warden, she watches her parents climb over their conflicts and pain to face each new struggle with courage, faith, and a few missteps--still teaching her and still parenting her, when she isn't too overwhelmed to notice"-- Back cover.

The Burnham Plan and Field Museum

Williams, Patricia M. — Invalid Date

Ms. American Dream

Williams-Lee, Patricia, Amber, Jeannine — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Slavery and the African American Story

Williams Dockery, Patricia — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: how slavery began, and how America split itself in two to end it. Here's the true story of America from the African American perspective.
From the moment Africans were first brought to the shores of the United States, they had a hand in shaping the country. Their labor created a strong economy, built our halls of government, and defined American society in profound ways. And though the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't signed until 300 years after the first Africans arrived, the fight for freedom started the moment they set foot on American soil.
This book contains the true narrative of the first 300 years of Africans in America: the struggles, the heroes, and the untold stories that are left out of textbooks. If you want to learn the truth about African American history in this country, start here.

Temptations

Williams, Otis — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Temptations

Williams, Otis — Sun, 31 Jan 1988 00:00:00 GMT

Birth of A Nation'hood

Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT