RT Book
T1 The war on drugs and the global colour line
A2 Koram, Kojo
LA English
PP London
PB Pluto Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1646125045
AB "Fifty years of the War on Drugs has led to millions of deaths, displacements, and incarcerations. Disproportionately enacted on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the color line across the globe. This collection reveals the racist impact of the war on drugs across multiple continents and in numerous situations, from racialized drug policing at festivals in the United Kingdom to the necropolitical wars in Juarez, Mexico, and from the exchange of drug policing programs between the United States and Israel to the management of black bodies in Brazil. Pushing forward the debate and activism led by groups such as Black Lives Matter and calling for radical changes in drug policy legislation and prison reform, this collection proves that the problem of drugs and race is an international, and intentional, disaster"--
CN HV5801
SN 9780745338828
SN 9780745338804
K1 Drug control : Social aspects
K1 Racism in criminology
K1 Lutte antidrogue - Aspect social
K1 Racisme en criminologie
K1 Drug control - Social aspects
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Drogenpolitik : Rassendiskriminierung : Internationaler Vergleich