The Suburban Crisis : : White America and the War on Drugs / / Matthew D. Lassiter.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] 2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (680 p.) :; 70 b/w illus. 23 tables. |
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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