The suburban crisis : white America and the war on drugs /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Drug-War Consensus and the Carceral State
- White Drug Crime: Hidden in Plain Sight
- Youth Politics and Social Control
- The Power and Permanence of Suburban Crisis
- Prologue: Los Angeles, 1950-51
- 1. Pushers and Victims
- Producing the White Teenage Narcotics Crisis
- California's Early War on Narcotics
- Nationalizing the Suburban Narcotics Crisis
- California Drug Enforcement and the Mexican Border
- 2. Suburban Rebels
- Constructing the White Middle-Class Delinquency Epidemic
- Sensationalizing and Medicalizing Suburban Drug Crime
- Campus Rebels and the Psychedelic Drug Culture
- Hippies, Runaways, and Heroin
- 3. Generation Gap
- San Francisco Bay Area: Drug Markets and High School Politics
- Suburbs of New York City: Race, Class, and De Facto Decriminalization
- Metropolitan Washington, DC: Diverting the "Normal" Youth Revolt
- Metropolitan Los Angeles: Mass Arrests in White Suburbia
- Drug Prevention and the "Credibility Gap"
- 4. Public Enemy Number One
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
- Bipartisan Consensus for Federal Drug Reform
- Saving the White Suburban Victim-Criminal
- Marijuana, Heroin, and the War on Drugs
- "All-Out War, On All Fronts"
- 5. Impossible Criminals
- Marijuana Legalization vs. Decriminalization
- State-Level Reform: "Concerned Parents" and "The Wrong Kids"
- Marijuana Decriminalization in Oregon
- Marijuana Reform and Race in California
- The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the "Real Criminals"
- 6. Parent Power
- Marijuana Decriminalization at the Crossroads
- The Origins of the "Parents' Movement"
- The Carter Administration's "Political Powder Keg"
- The Demand-Side Drug War
- National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth
- 7. Zero Tolerance
- The Reagan Administration and the "Parents' Movement"
- Marijuana and Alcohol: The Gateway Drugs
- "Tough Love" at the Grassroots
- Teen Drinking: Get MADD
- Crack Cocaine and the Racially Divergent Drug War
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Archives and Abbreviations in Notes
- Notes
- Index