Unequal under law [electronic resource] : race in the war on drugs / Doris Marie Provine.
2007
KF4755 .P76 2007eb
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Title
Unequal under law [electronic resource] : race in the war on drugs / Doris Marie Provine.
Author
Provine, Doris Marie.
ISBN
9780226684789 (electronic book)
9780226684604
0226684601
9780226684628
0226684628
9780226684604
0226684601
9780226684628
0226684628
Publication Details
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 207 p.) : ill.
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KF4755 .P76 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.73/0277
Summary
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, this book lays 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. The author's 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 how alarm over a threatening Black drug trade fueled support in the 1980s for a mandatory minimum sentencing scheme of unprecedented severity, the contention is that while our drug laws may no longer be racist by design, they remain racist in design. Moreover, their racial origins have long been ignored by every branch of government. This dangerous denial threatens our constitutional guarantee of equal protection of law and mutes a much-needed national discussion about institutionalized racism.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-195) and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.