LEADER 02988nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910462525503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-59332-660-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000271305 035 $a(EBL)1057791 035 $a(OCoLC)818818925 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757819 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12276795 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757819 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10759534 035 $a(PQKB)11336184 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1057791 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1057791 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10622769 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000271305 100 $a20100910d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDrug laws and institutional racism$b[electronic resource] $ethe story told by the Congressional record /$fCheryl L. Chambers 210 $aEl Paso, Tex. $cLFB Scholarly Pub.$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 225 1 $aLaw and society : recent scholarship 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-59332-410-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 330 $aChambers's hypothesis is that an historical analysis of the Congressional discussions surrounding the opium laws in the late 1800's and early 1900's, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 will illustrate that competition and threat, economic and/or political, were present prior to the enactment of the laws. Analyses indicate that while economic and to a limited extent political competition between Chinese immigrants and white Americans affected the passage of the opium laws, economic and political competition had little effect on the Marihuana Tax Act or the Anti-D 410 0$aLaw and society (New York, N.Y.) 606 $aDrug control$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNarcotic laws$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSociological jurisprudence$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDrug control$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aNarcotic laws$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aRacism$xHistory. 615 0$aSociological jurisprudence 676 $a344.7304/460262 700 $aChambers$b Cheryl L.$f1969-$0916282 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462525503321 996 $aDrug laws and institutional racism$92054173 997 $aUNINA