The War on Drugs, Racial Meanings, and Structural Racism: A Holistic and Reproductive Approach.
The War on Drugs in the United States has been part of a system of social control targeting low‐income black and Latinx communities. While this statement has been contested, its validity is clear from an encompassing framework that considers the history of racially motivated laws and practices and m...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Economics & Sociology Vol. 77; no. 3/4; pp. 849 - 893 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May-Sep2018
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