Darnell M. Hunt explores the relationship between social identity (race, class,
gender, etc.), our perceptions of everyday reality and the O. J. Simpson double
murder trial to ask: why was America so obsessed by this case? Why were so many
people invested in particular outcomes? And what are we to make of the apparent
racial divide in attitudes about the case captured by the opinion polls? O. J.
Facts and Fictions tackles these questions and considers the implications for
race relations in the United States at the dawn of the new millennium.