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Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

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Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America - Hansen, Helena, and Netherland, Jules, and Herzberg, David
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"For the first two decades of the new millennium, media images of the White "new face" of the US opioid crisis abounded. Yet, the whiteness of opioids is not new; it stems from a century of structural racism in drug policy. Whiteout is the first critical analysis of the whiteness of the opioid crisis. Anchored in riveting first-hand narratives from three leading drug scholars-an anthropologist-physician, a policy analyst, and a drug historian-it updates theories of racial capitalism to reveal how biotechnological industries ...

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Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America 2023, University of California Press

ISBN-13: 9780520384057

Hardcover