Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
by Toni Morrison (Editor), Claudia Brodsky Lacour (Editor)
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Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Birth of a Nation'hood elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination. As they pertain to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through twelve powerful essays that have been written especially for this book by distinguished intellectuals--black and white, male and female. Together these keen analyses show more of a defining American moment cast a chilling gaze on the script and spectacle of the insidious tensions that rend our society, even as they ponder the proper historical, cultural, political, legal, psychological, and linguistic ramifications of the affair. With contributions by: Toni Morrison, George Lipsitz, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., with Aderson Bellegarde Francois and Linda Y. Yueh, Nikol G. Alexander and Drucilla Cornell, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Ishmael Reed, Leola Johnson and David Roediger, Andrew Ross, Patricia J. Williams, Ann duCille, Armond White, Claudia Brodsky Lacour show lessTags
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- 1997
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Anthropology, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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- 345.73 — Society, government, & culture Law Criminal Law North America United States
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- KF224 .S485 .B57 — Law Law of the United States Law of the United States (Federal) Criminal trials
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