Whiteout : how racial capitalism changed the color of opioids in America /
The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis. In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white ""new face"" of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were ""deaths...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv33f0zpn |
| Summary: | The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis. In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white ""new face"" of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were ""deaths of despair"" signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout makes the counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis was the product. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 369 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520384075 9780520384071 9780520384057 0520384059 9780520384064 0520384067 |