Whiteout: how racial capitalism changed the color of opioids in America
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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hansen, Helena 1969- (Author), Netherland, Julie 1967- (Author), Herzberg, David L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2023]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520384071
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520384071
Abstract:"For the first two decades of the new millennium, media images of the White "new face" of the US opioid crisis abounded. Yet, the whiteness of opioids is not new; it stems from a century of structural racism in drug policy. Whiteout is the first critical analysis of the whiteness of the opioid crisis. Anchored in riveting first-hand narratives from three leading drug scholars-an anthropologist-physician, a policy analyst, and a drug historian-it updates theories of racial capitalism to reveal how biotechnological industries are driven by White consumption in ways that are toxic for White and non-White Americans alike"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 369 Seiten) Illustrationen, 1 Diagramm
ISBN:9780520384071
DOI:10.1525/9780520384071