{"product_id":"race-and-justice-isbn-9780787902643","title":"Race and Justice","description":"Puts the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson trials under the microscope\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.  Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Part One: Rodney King\u003cbr\u003e 1. Los Angeles: from Watts to South Central\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rodney King: Gentle Giant or Gorilla in the Mist?\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Color of Justice, I: The Trial, the Victim, the Verdict\u003cbr\u003e 4. Days of Rage: No Justice, No Peace\u003cbr\u003e 5. Two Commissions and Three Trials: Community Conflict and Concepts of Justice\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: O. J. Simpson\u003cbr\u003e 6. O. J. Simpson: The Man, the Myth, the Marriage\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Crime, the Chase, the Arrest\u003cbr\u003e 8. The People V. O.J. Simpson: The Trial Begins\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ambushing the Prosecution: Playing the Race Card\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Color of Justice, II: The Verdict, the Response, the Aftermath\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Race and Justice \u003cbr\u003e 11. ?Bad Blood?: Conspiracy Theories and the Black Community\u003cbr\u003e 12. A House Divided: Healing the Wound, Restoring the Dream\u003cbr\u003e AppAndix A: Research Note\u003cbr\u003e AppAndix B: People Interviewed  \"Gibbs' book, an in-depth analysis of the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases, is bold, courageous scholarship. Penned by a talented clinical psychologist, the study rises above superficiality and even now stands out from the large body of opportunistic, commercial Simpson-King literature. . . . An instant classic.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An excellent manual. . . . Offers constructive insights into both trials from intellectuals, educators and lawyers as well as social workers and community support counselors.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Gibbs finds context and meaning in this first serious, scholarly study of Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ?Race and Justice penetrates the searing headlines of two of the most celebrated criminal trials in American history to ponder their broader implications for our society. Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, the wise and insightful author, offers trenchant observations about the future of race relations in Los Angeles that Americans everywhere should heed, and in a hurry.? -- Hugh B. Price, president, National Urban League\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ?Must reading for those who want to reinvent the jury system, improve race relations, and make sense of the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson verdicts and their racially polarized aftermaths. Drawing on history, sociology, and psychology, the author analyzes these controversial verdicts and concludes that they are the legacy of racial injustice and police violence.? --Eddie N. Williams, president, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  ?Sensitive and gripping. Essential for anyone who wants to understand police and racial tension in America.? --Joseph D. McNamara, retired police chief of San Jose, California, research fellow, Hoover Institution Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ?Sensitive and gripping. Essential for anyone who wants to understand police and racial tension in America? --Joseph D. McNamara, retired police chief of San Jose, research fellow, Hoover Institution Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An important, thoughtful analysis.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This book is brilliant, dramatic and appalling....Her book is carefully documented, but written in an easy and attractive style.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, the wise and insightful author offers trenchant observations about the future of race relations in Los Angeles that Americans everywhere should heed, and in a hurry.\" --Hugh B. Price, President, National Urban League\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Careful and provocative analyses . . . essential for anyone interested in a broader perspective of the issues.\" --Phillip Young Blue, New York State Supreme Court Criminal Branch Library, Library Journal 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). The jury watched the video that showed four Los Angeles police officers unmercifully beating Rodney King. Yet, they found three of the four police officers not guilty of using excessive force.Another jury considered what many thought was the overwhelming evidence against the accused, including the blood evidence and DNA analysis of the socks, the glove, and the gate. Yet, they found O. J. Simpson not guilty of the double murder of his ex-wife and her friAnd Ron Goldman.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.Written in the style of a journalistic thriller, Race and Justice provides a context for understanding the history of the black experience in America and the pervasiveness of  racism in the Los Angeles criminal justice system. And the book's insightful comments and quotes from many of Los Angeles's community leaders, judges, politicians, lawyers, and police officials bring to light the double standard of black justice and white justice in Amer 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.","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989903032549,"sku":"NP9780787902643","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780787902643.jpg?v=1761785856","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/race-and-justice-isbn-9780787902643","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}