Racist Logic: Markets, Drugs, Sex - Couverture souple

Murch, Donna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1946511366 ISBN 13 : 9781946511362

Editeur : Boston Review, 2019

Synopsis

The history of international banking, the commodification of black masculinity, the buying and selling of women's eggs, Michelle Obama's dubious advice to black youth, and the workings of affirmative action at elite universities viewed through the lens of racial capitalism.

In Racist Logic, lead essayist Donna Murch writes that “historically, the division between 'dope' and medicine was the race and class of users.” By using the concept of “racial capitalism” to examine the opioid crisis alongside the War on Drugs, Murch brings an otherwise familiar story into new territory. To understand the twisted logic that created the divergent responses to drug use—succor and sympathy for white users, prison and expulsion for people of color—Murch shows how a racialized regime of drug prohibitions led Purdue Pharma to market OxyContin specifically to whites.

Alongside Murch, contributors consider how racial capitalism helps us understand the history of international banking, the commodification of black masculinity, the buying and selling of women's eggs, Michelle Obama's dubious advice to black youth, and the workings of affirmative action at elite universities.

Contributors

Michael Collins, Richard Thompson Ford, Helena Hansen, David Herzberg, Peter James Hudson, Jonathan Kahn, L.A. Kauffman, Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Jordanna Matlon, Max Mishler, Donna Murch, Julie Netherland, Britt Rusert, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Alys Eve Weinbaum

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Donna Murch, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland and the forthcoming Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives.

Donna Murch, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland and the forthcoming Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boston Review
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1946511366
• ISBN 13: 9781946511362
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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