{"product_id":"whiteout-how-racial-capitalism-changed-the-color-of-opioids-in-america-paperback","title":"Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelena Hansen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJules Netherland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Herzberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white \"new face\" of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were \"deaths of despair\" signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. \u003ci\u003eWhiteout\u003c\/i\u003e makes the counterintuitive case that the opioid crisis was the product of white racial privilege as well as despair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Anchored by interviews, data, and riveting firsthand narratives from three leading experts--an addiction psychiatrist, a policy advocate, and a drug historian--\u003ci\u003eWhiteout \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how a century of structural racism in drug policy, and in profit-oriented medical industries led to mass white overdose deaths. The authors implicate racially segregated health care systems, the racial assumptions of addiction scientists, and relaxed regulation of pharmaceutical marketing to white consumers. \u003ci\u003eWhiteout\u003c\/i\u003e is an unflinching account of how racial capitalism is toxic for all Americans.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Black people on drugs get police, prison, and methadone; white folks get therapy, sympathy, and buprenorphine. Meanwhile, the biggest dealers, pharmaceutical companies, get fines and wrist slaps, but continue to profit by creating addicts and then selling drugs promising a cure. Why? The answers are all here in \u003ci\u003eWhiteout, \u003c\/i\u003e by far the boldest, most important, most illuminating book ever written on the opioid epidemic. The authors trace the crisis to racial capitalism, the source of a world where white lives matter and Black, Brown, and Indigenous lives don't; where white deaths are tragic and Black, Brown, and Indigenous deaths routine. They show that legalization is not enough. We must desegregate and decommodify drugs and treatment. And if we are to truly save lives, racial capitalism has to die.\"--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Whiteout\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly exposes how drug policy, biocapital, and addiction science have historically segregated narcotics by race, shielding white drug users from the stigma and policing targeted at Black and Brown communities. With diverse disciplinary expertise and personal stories, Hansen, Netherland, and Herzberg compellingly show that only by grappling with this medicalized whitewashing can we fully understand both the racist war on drugs and the opioid crisis--and collectively end their widespread devastation.\"--Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, author of\u003ci\u003e Killing the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eWhiteout\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe most clear-eyed and comprehensive study of America's overdose crisis to date. The authors' electric scholarship reveals how Whiteness determines the boundaries of categories we often think of as being derived scientifically and rationally. When it comes to drugs, America seems to suffer from a peculiar sort of historical amnesia. \u003ci\u003eWhiteout \u003c\/i\u003eshows us what we forget, what we choose to remember, and what's kept hidden.\"⏤Zachary Siegel, writer and drug policy journalist for \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \"A fascinating, well-written, and important look at how racism shapes drug policy and what to do about it.\"⏤Maia Szalavitz, author of \u003ci\u003eUndoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction\u003c\/i\u003e and contributing Opinion writer for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Hansen, Netherland, and Herzberg's \u003ci\u003eWhiteout\u003c\/i\u003e is a dramatic and much-needed challenge to our outdated ways of understanding addiction. They bravely place our drug policies in the context of the devastating and universal apartheid within which we all suffer. This book will change you and change us!\"--Mindy Thompson Fullilove, author of \u003ci\u003eMain Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eWhiteout\u003c\/i\u003e compellingly recruits sociopolitical development and persistent etiological mythologies such as blaming the victim, biological dimorphism, and malingering to buttress the authors' claim that systemic racial disdain fuels the heavily punitive measures deployed against African American opiate dependence, casting it as a moral failure. The authors' insights, leavened with cultural sensitivity, contrast this approach with the empathic medical model adopted for whites and help illuminate for us the ethical path forward.\"--Harriet A. Washington, author of \u003ci\u003eInfectious Madness \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Medical Apartheid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelena Hansen\u003c\/b\u003e is an addiction psychiatrist and anthropologist and Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJules Netherland \u003c\/b\u003eis a sociologist and policy advocate and Managing Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Herzberg\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48045314277635,"sku":"9780520418349","price":57549.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/go9jwFYil29780520418349.webp?v=1777654268","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-kr\/products\/whiteout-how-racial-capitalism-changed-the-color-of-opioids-in-america-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}