NPR's WUNC Interview on Legal Fictions: "U.S. racial identity is the sustained product of U.S. law."

Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that the black body is thoroughly bound by law. "...a remarkable example of productive interdisciplinarity."  Randall Kennedy. Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard University.

"...a culmination (if not the culmination) of Holloway's rich corpus of criticism and theory.... This book is Holloway at her best: intelligent and thoughtful, fully in command of the critical vocabularies that she introduces."  Farah Jasmine Griffin. Professor of English, Comp Literature, African American Studies, Columbia University. Author of  Harlem Nocturne

Erudite and emotional in turns, it is full of truths that appeal to the head and the heart. Its primary strength is its poignancy. There is a kind of mystery that holds the book together, one that commands our interest from start to finish. Little by little we learn that Holloway has suffered a terrible loss -- the death of her young son. She reveals the details slowly, impressionistically, working through her grief by turning again and again to the subject she knows best: books.  The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)

BookMarks is a moving and revelatory memoir, as Holloway contemplates her own reading history as well as that of her family...this is a work of fiercely intelligent scholarship. Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune

Private Bodies, Public Texts is an illuminating meditation on the social construction of personal identity, with special focus on gender and racial categorizations in biomedical ethics....This is a subtle, challenging book.  ​Robert A. Burt, Alexander M Bickel Professor of Law, Yale University

...as powerful as it is beautifully written. Karla FC Holloway's is a very different kind of bioethics, one that challenges us to think more broadly and more specifically about what privacy and justice mean.  And she reminds us, with sometimes piercing insight, just how critical gender and race can be in making meaning out of both.  Ruth R. Faden, Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

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