The Suburban Crisis : : White America and the War on Drugs / / Matthew D. Lassiter.

• VerfasserIn: Lassiter, Matthew D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (680 p.) :; 70 b/w illus. 23 tables.

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 politi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• The Drug-War Consensus and the Carceral State
• White Drug Crime: Hidden in Plain Sight
• Youth Politics and Social Control
• The Power and Permanence of Suburban Crisis
• Prologue: Los Angeles, 1950-51
• 1 Pushers and Victims
• Introduction
• Producing the White Teenage Narcotics Crisis
• California's Early War on Narcotics
• Nationalizing the Suburban Narcotics Crisis
• California Drug Enforcement and the Mexican Border
• 2 Suburban Rebels
• Introduction
• Constructing the White Middle-Class Delinquency Epidemic
• Sensationalizing and Medicalizing Suburban Drug Crime
• Campus Rebels and the Psychedelic Drug Culture
• Hippies, Runaways, and Heroin
• 3 Generation Gap
• Introduction
• San Francisco Bay Area: Drug Markets and High School Politics
• Suburbs of New York City: Race, Class, and De Facto Decriminalization
• Metropolitan Washington, DC: Diverting the "Normal" Youth Revolt
• Metropolitan Los Angeles: Mass Arrests in White Suburbia
• Drug Prevention and the "Credibility Gap"
• 4 Public Enemy Number One
• Introduction
• Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
• Bipartisan Consensus for Federal Drug Reform
• Saving the White Suburban Victim-Criminal
• Marijuana, Heroin, and the War on Drugs
• "All-Out War, On All Fronts"
• 5 Impossible Criminals
• Introduction
• Marijuana Legalization vs. Decriminalization
• State-Level Reform: "Concerned Parents" and "The Wrong Kids"
• Marijuana Decriminalization in Oregon
• Marijuana Reform and Race in California
• The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the "Real Criminals"
• 6 Parent Power
• Introduction
• Marijuana Decriminalization at the Crossroads
• The Origins of the "Parents' Movement"
• The Carter Administration's "Political Powder Keg"
• The Demand-Side Drug War
• National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth
• 7 Zero Tolerance
• Introduction
• The Reagan Administration and the "Parents' Movement"
• Marijuana and Alcohol: The Gateway Drugs
• "Tough Love" at the Grassroots
• Teen Drinking: Get MADD
• Crack Cocaine and the Racially Divergent Drug War
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Archives and Abbreviations in Notes
• Notes
• Index