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Informationen zum Autor JEWELLE TAYLOR GIBBS a clinical psychologist and consultant, is Zellerbach Family Fund professor of social policy at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley. She is the coauthor of Children of Color (Jossey-Bass, 1989) and the editor of Young, Black, and Male in America: An Endangered Species (Greenwood Press, 1988). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This work examines the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson trials to show that the issue of race was at the heart of both of these cases. Given the racial and ethnic composition of the two juries! it argues! their verdicts were all but predictable in view of their experiences with the police. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Part One: Rodney King 1. Los Angeles: from Watts to South Central 2. Rodney King: Gentle Giant or Gorilla in the Mist? 3. The Color of Justice, I: The Trial, the Victim, the Verdict 4. Days of Rage: No Justice, No Peace 5. Two Commissions and Three Trials: Community Conflict and Concepts of Justice Part Two: O. J. Simpson 6. O. J. Simpson: The Man, the Myth, the Marriage 7. The Crime, the Chase, the Arrest 8. The People V. O.J. Simpson: The Trial Begins 9. Ambushing the Prosecution: Playing the Race Card 10. The Color of Justice, II: The Verdict, the Response, the Aftermath Part Three: Race and Justice 11. ?Bad Blood?: Conspiracy Theories and the Black Community 12. A House Divided: Healing the Wound, Restoring the Dream AppAndix A: Research Note AppAndix B: People Interviewed...
