03688nam 2200661 450 991081207930332120200520144314.00-231-53556-210.7312/magu16134(CKB)3710000000077203(EBL)1457777(OCoLC)862048593(SSID)ssj0001062295(PQKBManifestationID)11666120(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001062295(PQKBWorkID)11015497(PQKB)11518545(StDuBDS)EDZ0000648988(DE-B1597)459085(OCoLC)979575150(DE-B1597)9780231535564(Au-PeEL)EBL1457777(CaPaEBR)ebr10820196(CaONFJC)MIL562545(OCoLC)864358219(MiAaPQ)EBC1457777(EXLCZ)99371000000007720320130405h20142014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThai stick surfers, scammers, and the untold story of the marijuana trade /Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter ; foreword by David FarberNew York :Columbia University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-16134-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword -- Introduction -- Surfers, scammers, and the counterculture -- The Hippie trail -- Kuta beach -- Thai sticks -- Pattaya Beach ground zero -- The sea of grass -- The gold rush -- Pirates and perils -- Multitons and mother ships -- The Dea gains ground -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970's, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of treasure seekers, from surfers looking to finance their endless summers to wide-eyed hippie true believers and lethal marauders left over from the Vietnam War. Moving a shipment of Thai sticks from northeast Thailand farms to American consumers meant navigating one of the most complex smuggling channels in the history of the drug trade. Many forget that until the mid-1970's, the vast majority of marijuana consumed in the United States was imported, and there was little to no domestic production. Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter are the first historians to document this underground industry, the only record of its existence rooted in the fading memories of its elusive participants. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with smugglers and law enforcement agents, the authors recount the buy, delivery, voyage home, and product offload. They capture the eccentric personalities of the men and women who transformed the Thai marijuana trade from a GI cottage industry into a professionalized business moving the world's most lucrative commodities, unraveling a rare history from the smugglers' perspective.Marijuana industryThailandDrug trafficThailandHistorySmugglersThailandBiographyMarijuana industryDrug trafficHistory.Smugglers363.4509593Maguire Peter(Peter H.)1633461Ritter Mike1673608MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812079303321Thai stick4037796UNINA03782nam 2200661 450 991081299500332120230629171926.00-231-53988-610.7312/winn17294(CKB)3710000000461357(EBL)2145073(StDuBDS)EDZ0001188770(MiAaPQ)EBC2145073(DE-B1597)458555(OCoLC)1054867856(OCoLC)918624206(OCoLC)984686743(DE-B1597)9780231539883(Au-PeEL)EBL2145073(CaPaEBR)ebr11092229(CaONFJC)MIL826600(EXLCZ)99371000000046135720150204h20152015 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierWay too cool selling out race and ethics /Shannon WinnubstPilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries onlyNew York ;Chichester, West Sussex :Columbia University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-17294-X 0-231-17295-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: A Very Uncool Book --1. Excavating Categories --2. Rethinking Difference --3. From Instant Karma to Instant Wealth --4. "How Cool Is That?" --5. Reading Race as the Real --6. Stop Making Sense --Notes --Bibliography --IndexLife, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it across a range of markets and media. Yet the concept wasn't always a popular commodity. Cool began as a potent aesthetic of post-World War II black culture, embodying a very specific, highly charged method of resistance to white supremacy and the globalized exploitation of capital.Way Too Cool follows the hollowing-out of "coolness" in modern American culture and its reflection of a larger evasion of race, racism, and ethics now common in neoliberal society. It revisits such watershed events as the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, second-wave feminism, the emergence of identity politics, 1980s multiculturalism, 1990s rhetorics of diversity and colorblindness, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina, as well as the contemporaneous developments of rising mass incarceration and legalized same-sex marriage. It pairs the perversion of cool with the slow erasure of racial and ethical issues from our social consciousness, which effectively quashes our desire to act ethically and resist abuses of power. The cooler we become, the more indifferent we grow to the question of values, particularly inquiry that spurs protest and conflict. This book sounds an alarm for those who care about preserving our ties to an American tradition of resistance.AdvertisingSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryMinorities in advertisingUnited StatesHistoryCommodificationUnited StatesNeoliberalismUnited StatesUnited StatesRace relationsAdvertisingSocial aspectsHistory.Minorities in advertisingHistory.CommodificationNeoliberalism306.3/4Winnubst Shannon1681760MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812995003321Way too cool4115946UNINA