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 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Time line
- Part One. Technologies of whiteness in the clinic, the statehouse, and the archive
- 1. Pharmakon of racial poisons and cures
- 2. How to see whiteness : a detour through race theory
- 3. Good samaritans in the war on drugs that wasn't
- 4. "Mother's little helpers" : medicine's safe cabinet for white narcotics
- Part Two. Three opiods: racial biographies
- 5. Oxycontin's racial precision
- 6. Buprenorphine's silent white revolution
- 7. The housewife's return to heroin (and foray into fentanyl)
- 8. From racial capitalism to biosocial justice
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.