Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Trial

<p>Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, <i>Birth of a Nation'hood</i> elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination.</p> <p>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 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.</p> <p>With contributions by:<br> 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</p>

Author(s): Toni Morrison  

ISBN 10: 0679758933
ISBN 13: 9780679758938
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Publication: February 1997