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Beware Euphoria

- The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs
Af: George Fisher Engelsk Hardback

Beware Euphoria

- The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs
Af: George Fisher Engelsk Hardback
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Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America''s moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation''s racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea that early antidrug laws in the US arose from racial animus, George Fisher instead shows in textured detail how US drug laws were driven by a deep-seated cultural taboo against euphoria and a preoccupation with white moral integrity.From nineteenth-century opium dens to the war on cocaine and cannabis, and more, Fisher offers a vivid tour of the sites of conflict, along with a convincing case for how the moral discourses and social contexts of the day pit drugs against the law. Bringing this history up to the present, Fisher shows how the racial dynamic has changed dramatically. As harsher penalties swell prisons with mostly nonwhite dealers, antidrug laws have come under renewed scrutiny as a tool of racial oppression. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.
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Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America''s moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation''s racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea that early antidrug laws in the US arose from racial animus, George Fisher instead shows in textured detail how US drug laws were driven by a deep-seated cultural taboo against euphoria and a preoccupation with white moral integrity.From nineteenth-century opium dens to the war on cocaine and cannabis, and more, Fisher offers a vivid tour of the sites of conflict, along with a convincing case for how the moral discourses and social contexts of the day pit drugs against the law. Bringing this history up to the present, Fisher shows how the racial dynamic has changed dramatically. As harsher penalties swell prisons with mostly nonwhite dealers, antidrug laws have come under renewed scrutiny as a tool of racial oppression. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 504
ISBN-13: 9780197688489
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0197688489
Udg. Dato: 22 mar 2024
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 319mm
Højde: 246mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato: 22 mar 2024
Forfatter(e): George Fisher
Forfatter(e) George Fisher


Kategori Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier


ISBN-13 9780197688489


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 504


Udgave


Længde 31mm


Bredde 319mm


Højde 246mm


Udg. Dato 22 mar 2024


Oplagsdato 22 mar 2024


Forlag Oxford University Press Inc

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