Unequal under Law Race in the War on Drugs

Name: Unequal under Law Race in the War on Drugs
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ISBN: 9780226684628

ISBN-10: 0226684628

ISBN-13: 9780226684628

Edition: 2007

Authors: Doris Marie Provine

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Race is clearly a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this elusive relationship,Unequal under Lawlays out how decades of both manifest and latent racism helped shape a punitive U.S. drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been willfully ignored by Congress and the courts. Doris Marie Provine’s engaging analysis traces the history of race in anti-drug efforts from the temperance movement of the early 1900s to the crack scare of the late twentieth century, showing how campaigns to criminalize drug use have always conjured images of feared minorities. Explaining…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 193
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments and Dedication


Introduction



Racial Discrimination in the Eyes of the Law



Race in America's First War on Drugs



Negro Cocaine Fiends, Mexican Marijuana Smokers, and Chinese Opium Addicts: The Drug Menace in Racial Relief



Congress on Crack: How Race-Neutral Language Hides Racial Meaning



The Racial Impact of the War on Drugs: How Government Coped



Racial Justice: The Courts Consider Sentencing Disparities


Epilogue


Notes


References


Index