Race and Justice: Rodney King and O. J. Simpson in a House Divided Paperback - 1996
by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs
Although the courtroom cameras have been turned off, the trails of Rodney King and O.J. Simpson have brought the volatile issues of race and class to the center of our social consciousness. Race and Justice shows how the "race card" was played in both trials and how black and whites in the United States remain deeply devided in their attitudes toward the police, the courts, and the entire criminal justice system.
From the rear cover
In this thought-provoking book, psychologist and scholar Jewelle Taylor Gibbs puts the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson trials under the microscope to show that the issue of race was at the very heart of both of these emotionally charged cases. And, she observes, given the racial and ethnic composition of the members of the two juries, their verdicts were all but predictable in view of their different experiences with the police.Race and Justice reviews the turbulent events of the two so-called trials of the century and examines them from a social and political framework of race relations and police misconduct. The author points out that King and Simpson, two apparently dissimilar men, came from remarkably similar backgrounds. And she shows how their trials have linked them forever as symbols of the different worlds inhabited by blacks and whites in America. Gibbs's compelling analysis of the issues that permeated these trials will challenge even the most cynical observer to rethink any previously held assumptions about race and the criminal justice system.
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- Title Race and Justice: Rodney King and O. J. Simpson in a House Divided
- Author Jewelle Taylor Gibbs
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 370
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-09-30
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780787902643 / 0787902640
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.18 x 6.1 x 0.78 in (23.32 x 15.49 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Simpson, O. J. - Trials, litigation, etc, Discrimination in criminal justice
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96021545
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.309
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/15/1996, Page 384
- Library Journal, 10/01/1996, Page 104
- Publishers Weekly, 10/14/1996, Page 72
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