RT Book
T1 5 grams: crack cocaine, rap music, and the War on Drugs
T2 Alternative criminology series
A1 Bogazianos, Dimitri A.
LA English
PP New York u.a.
PB New York University Press
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/664449417
AB "In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law repealing one of the most controversial policies in American criminal justice history: the one hundred to one sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder whereby someone convicted of "simply" possessing five grams of crack--the equivalent of a few sugar packets--had been required by law to serve no less than five years in prison. In this highly original work, Dimitri A. Bogazianos draws on various sources to examine the profound consequences of America's reliance on this punishment structure, tracing the rich cultural linkages between America's War on Drugs, and the creative contributions of those directly affected by its destructive effects. Focusing primarily on lyrics that emerged in 1990s New York rap, which critiqued the music industry for being corrupt, unjust, and criminal, Bogazianos shows how many rappers began drawing parallels between the "rap game" and the "crack game." He argues that the symbolism of crack in rap's stance towards its own commercialization represents a moral debate that is far bigger than hip hop culture, highlighting the degree to which crack cocaine--although a drug long in decline--has come to represent the entire paradoxical predicament of punishment in the U.S. today."--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV5825
SN 0814787002
SN 0814787010
SN 0814723063
SN 0814725163
SN 9780814723067
SN 9780814725160
SN 9780814787007
SN 9780814787014
K1 Drug control : United States
K1 Crack (Drug) : United States
K1 Sentences (Criminal procedure) : United States
K1 Narcotic laws : United States
K1 USA : Drogenpolitik : Crack : Rap