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...
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Author: Helena Hansen
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Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America by Hansen, Helena

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

CHF 38.97

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

CHF 38.97
Author: Helena Hansen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 of white racial privilege as well as despair.

Anchored by interviews, data, and riveting firsthand narratives from three leading experts--an addiction psychiatrist, a policy advocate, and a drug historian--Whiteout reveals how a century of structural racism in drug policy, and in profit-oriented medical industries led to mass white overdose deaths. The authors implicate racially segregated health care systems, the racial assumptions of addiction scientists, and relaxed regulation of pharmaceutical marketing to white consumers. Whiteout is an unflinching account of how racial capitalism is toxic for all Americans.

Author: Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, David Herzberg
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/28/2023
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780520384057

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