- 128 pages
- English
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Racist Logic
About This Book
Racist Logic tackles how racist thinking can be found in surprisingâand often overlookedâplaces. In the forum's lead essay, historian Donna Murch traces the origins of the opioid epidemic to Big Pharma's aggressive marketing to white suburbanites. The result, Murch shows, has been to construct a legal world of white drug addiction alongside an illicit drug war that has disproportionately targeted people of color. Other essays examine how the global surrogacy industry incentivizes the reproduction of whiteness while relying on the exploited labor of women of color, how black masculinity is commodified in racial capitalism, and how Wall Street exploited Caribbean populations to bankroll U.S. imperialism. Racist logic, this issue shows, continues to pervade our society, including its nominally colorblind business practices. Contributors not only explore the institutional structures that profit from black suffering, but also point the way to racial justice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Editorsâ Note
- How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
- Race and the First Opium Crisis
- Black Drugs, White Drugs
- The Cure Amplifies the Problem
- No Gentler War on Drugs
- The Supremacy of Toughness
- Denying Racism
- From Absolution to Accountability
- Public Policy Made Americans the Biggest Consumers of Opioids in the World
- Bankers and Empire
- Branded
- Reproducing Racial Capitalism
- Succeeding While Black
- Democratizing Elitism
- Contributors