A Summary of “The Death of the Profane” Patricia J. Williams; Fields of Reading pgs101-106

A Summary of “The Death of the Profane” Patricia J. Williams; Fields of Reading pgs101-106


In the article “The Death of the Profane” Patricia J. Williams indicates that people

are perceptibly judged by their race even though racism is not stated. Williams indirectly

points out that even the buzzers are used as a method to regulate customer’s race which

consequently states that some people’s presence is not desired in some establishments.

The author uses her personal experience to push the reader to see how racism is a present

issue.

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Williams, a black woman, New York City attorney, narrates an incident where

she was victim of racism. Two Saturdays before Christmas, at one o’clock in the

afternoon, she went shopping and an attendant from Benetton’s store, “a white teenager

wearing running shoes and feasting bubble gum”; as she describes, stopped her from

shopping at a Benetton’s store. T...