BIRTH OF A NATION-HOOD(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　The best part of this collection of essays remarking on the O.
J. Simpson case is the reminder that what we saw on television and
read in the newspaper wasn’t the whole story. The authors–lawyers
and academics for the most part–aren’t primarily interested in
questions of guilt or innocence. Instead, they look at the
marketing of the Simpson trial and the falseness of the “race
neutral” concept when applied to the trial and its aftermath. In
the end, it’s hard to disagree with , who concludes that “If we are not
actually the worse for it all . . . we have most certainly been
shown at our worst by it.”

　　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

The Official Story: Dead Man Golfing
Introduction
by Toni Morrison

The Greatest Story Ever Sold: Marketing and the O.J. Simpson
Trial
George Lipsitz

The O.J. Simpson Trial: Who Was Improperly “Playing the Race
Card”?
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Aderson Bellegarde Francois, Linda Y.
Yueh

Dismissed or Banished? A Testament to the Reasonableness of the
Simpson Jury
Nikol G. Alexander and Drucilla Cornell

Color-blind Dreams and Racial Nightmares: Reconfiguring Racism
in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Bigger and O.J.
Ishmael Reed

“Hertz, Don’t It?”
Becoming Colorless and Staying Black in the Crossover of O.J.
Simpson
Leola Johnson and David Roediger

If the Genes Fit, How Do You Aquit?
O.J. and Science
Andrew Ross

American Kabuki
Patricia J. Williams

The Unbearable Darkness of Being: “Fresh” Thoughts on Race, Sex,
and the Simpsons
Ann duCille

Eye, the Jury
Armond White

The “Interest” of the Simpson Trial: Spectacle, National
History, and the Notion of Disinterested Judgement
Claudia Brodsky Lacour