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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814587103321

Autore

Chambers Cheryl L. <1969->

Titolo

Drug laws and institutional racism : the story told by the Congressional record / / Cheryl L. Chambers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, Tex., : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2011

ISBN

1-59332-660-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Law and society : recent scholarship

Disciplina

344.7304/460262

Soggetti

Drug control - Social aspects - United States - History

Narcotic laws - Social aspects - United States - History

Racism - United States - History

Sociological jurisprudence - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1; Introduction; CHAPTER 2; Conflict Theory and Racial Inequality; CHAPTER 3; Institutional Racism and the Use of the Congressional Record; CHAPTER 4; Opium Laws of the Late 1800's and 1909; CHAPTER 5; The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937; CHAPTER 6; Anti-drug Abuse Act of 1986: Cocaine and Crack Cocaine; CHAPTER 7; Conclusions; APPENDIX; Methodology; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Chambers's hypothesis is that an historical analysis of the Congressional discussions surrounding the opium laws in the late 1800's and early 1900's, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 will illustrate that competition and threat, economic and/or political, were present prior to the enactment of the laws. Analyses indicate that while economic and to a limited extent political competition between Chinese immigrants and white Americans affected the passage of the opium laws, economic and political competition had little effect on the Marihuana Tax Act or the Anti-D