Beware Euphoria
The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 March 2024
- ISBN 9780197688489
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages504 pages
- Size 165x221x45 mm
- Weight 839 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 figures & 11 maps 497
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Short description:
George Fisher seeks the moral roots of America's antidrug regime and challenges claims that early antidrug laws arose from racial animus. Those moral roots trace to early Christian sexual strictures, which later influenced Puritan condemnations of drunkenness, and ultimately shaped the early American drug war. Early laws against opium dens, cocaine, and cannabis rarely rose from racial strife, but sprang from the traditional moral censure of intoxication and perceived threats to respectable white women and youth. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.
MoreLong description:
Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea that early antidrug laws in the US arose from racial animus, George Fisher instead shows in textured detail how US drug laws were driven by a deep-seated cultural taboo against euphoria and a preoccupation with white moral integrity.
From nineteenth-century opium dens to the war on cocaine and cannabis, and more, Fisher offers a vivid tour of the sites of conflict, along with a convincing case for how the moral discourses and social contexts of the day pit drugs against the law. Bringing this history up to the present, Fisher shows how the racial dynamic has changed dramatically. As harsher penalties swell prisons with mostly nonwhite dealers, antidrug laws have come under renewed scrutiny as a tool of racial oppression. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven in part by the movement for racial justice.
In this polemical work Fisher takes exception to the view that the societal banning of opiates, psychedelics, and other drugs despite the acceptance of alcohol use is rooted in racism against Chinese, Mexican, and Black Americans...this well-written and well-argued book makes a strong case in favor of the author's position.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations and Tables
Prologue
Introduction: Monogamy's Paradox
PART I: MORAL ROOTS
Chapter One: Sex, Drunkenness, and the Euphoria Taboo
Chapter Two: The Gin Crisis
Chapter Three: Prohibition's Rise, Its Fall, and the Reign of Social Drinking
Chapter Four: Medical Drug Use Versus Recreational Abuse
PART II: RACIAL MYTHS
Chapter Five: Race in the Dens and Miscegenation Myths
Chapter Six: Crazed Racial Coke Fiends
Chapter Seven: Marijuana: Assassin of Youth
Chapter Eight: Monogamy's Demise?
