Birth of a nation'hood : gaze, script, and spectacle in the O.J. Simpson case /

Birth of a nation'hood : gaze, script, and spectacle in the O.J. Simpson case / [electronic resource] edited by Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky Lacour ; introduction by Toni Morrison. - New York : Pantheon Books, c1997. - xxviii, 418 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Official story: dead man golfing / The Greatest story ever sold: marketing and the O.J. Simpson trial / The O.J. Simpson trial: who was improperly 'playing the race card'? / Dismissed or banished? A testament to the reasonableness of the Simpson jury / Color-blind dreams and racial nightmares: reconfiguring racism in the post-civil rights era / Bigger and O.J. / 'Hertz, don't it?' Becoming colorless and staying black in the crossover of O.J. Simpson / If the genes fit, how do you acquit? O.J. and science / American kabuki / The Unbearable darkness of being: 'fresh' thoughts on race, sex, and the Simpsons / Eye, the jury / The 'Interest' of the Simpson trial: spectacle, national history, and the notion of disinterested judgment / Toni Morrison -- George Lipsitz -- A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Aderson Bellgarde François, and Linda Y. Yueh -- Nikol G. Alexander and Drucilla Cornell -- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw -- Ishamel Reed -- Leola Johnson and DAvid Roediger -- Andrew Ross -- Patricia J. Williams -- Ann duCille -- Armond White -- Claudia Brodsky Lacour.

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Simpson, O. J., 1947- --Trials, litigation, etc.
Simpson, Orenthal J.


Trials (Murder)--California--Los Angeles.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
Prozess

KF224.S485 / B57 1997

345.73/02523/0979494 347.30525230979494