From Black Wall Street to the Story of O.J.

Race, Identity, and Wealth Inequality

AvLori Latrice Martin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien SUNY series in African American Studies

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Explores race, class, and identity in relationship to wealth inequality in America.From Black Wall Street to the Story of O.J. explores the relationship between race and class in the United States, with an emphasis on wealth as a prism to interpret inequality from the Antebellum period to the present. Lori Latrice Martin introduces new ways of understanding classic works about race and class such as E. Franklin Frazier's The Black Bourgeoisie, as well as figures in contemporary popular culture, including in music and film—for example Sinners (2025) and the Met Gala. She also examines historical events like the Tulsa Massacre and the life of O.J. Simpson and includes commentary regarding the latest battles in the ongoing American culture war and provides some strategies for navigating what may sometimes feel like a landscape of political landmines.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in African American Studies
Antal sidor:163
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9798855809244

Utforska kategorier

Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Lori Latrice Martin is Professor and Associate Dean at Louisiana State University. She is author of America in Denial: How Race-Fair Policies Reinforce Racial Inequality in America, also by SUNY Press.

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"Refusing to make Simpson into either saint or sinner, Martin engages O.J.'s infamy as both an object lesson and entrée into a larger analysis of the stormy relationship between Blackness and wealth, all within the raging tempest of an American apartheid. A whirlwind tour from 'Black Wall Street' in the '20s, reactions against E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoise in the '50s, to Jay-Z's 2020 viral song 'The Story of O.J.', Martin provides an empirical shelter from the downpour of pathological narratives of Black dysfunction and one-sided tales of Black homogeneity. Out of the fog of raced and classed mythologies, Martin shines a light on the complexities, contradictions, and creations of Black wealth. The Story of O.J. thus stands as a rich almanac that not only provocatively recasts the paleoclimate of race and class in new perspectives, but forecasts both clear and blustery conditions to befall us still." — Matthew W. Hughey coauthor of Racialized Media: The Design, Delivery, and Decoding of Race and Ethnicity.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Racial Wealth Inequality in America2. Black Tulsa Before the Massacre: The Way We Never Were3. E. Franklin Frazier and the Black Bourgeoise: Revisited4. The Story of OJ5. Building Black WealthConclusionBibliographyIndex