The Suburban Crisis

Name: The Suburban Crisis
Brand: Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press

How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration whenever they break the law. The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today.\nIn this incisive political history, Matthew Lassiter shows how the category of the \u201Cwhite middle-class victim\u201D has been as central to the politics and culture of the drug war as racial stereotypes like the \u201Cforeign trafficker,\u201D \u201Curban\n\nThe Suburban Crisis\nWhite America and the War on Drugs\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked servi;