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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Chi tiết về thư mục
Những tác giả chính: Hansen, Helena, 1969- (Tác giả), Netherland, Julie (Tác giả), Herzberg, David L. (David Lowell) (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv33f0zpn
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Tóm tắt: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.
Mô tả vật lý:1 online resource (xi, 369 pages) : illustrations
Thư mục:Includes bibliographical references and index.
số ISBN:0520384075
9780520384071
9780520384057
0520384059
9780520384064
0520384067