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 of a defining American moment cast a
chilling gaze on the * 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