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Also by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs:

Race and Justice, September 1996
Paperback

RACE AND JUSTICE
By: Jewelle Taylor Gibbs

Rodney King and O. J. Simpson in a House Divided

Jossey-Bass
September 1996
On Sale: September 18, 1996
348 pages
ISBN: 0787902640
EAN: 9780787902643
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

Puts the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson trials under the microscope

Reviews the turbulent events of the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson trials from a social and political framework of race relations and police misconduct. This thought-provoking book shows that the issue of race was at the very heart of both of these emotionally charged cases.

Psychologist and scholar Jewelle Taylor Gibbs shows how King and Simpson have been transformed by their trials into 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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