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The history of international banking, the commodification of black masculinity, the buying and selling of women's eggs, Michelle Obama's dubious advice to black youth, and the workings of affirmative action at elite universities viewed through the lens of racial capitalism.In Racist Logic, lead essayist Donna Murch writes that "historically, the division between 'dope' and medicine was the race and class of users.” By using the concept of "racial capitalism” to examine the opioid crisis alongside the War on Drugs, Murch brings an otherwise familiar story into new territory. To understand the twisted logic that created the divergent responses to drug use—succor and sympathy for white users, prison and expulsion for people of color—Murch shows how a racialized regime of drug prohibitions led Purdue Pharma to market OxyContin specifically to whites.
Alongside Murch, contributors consider how racial capitalism helps us understand the history of international banking, the commodification of black masculinity, the buying and selling of women's eggs, Michelle Obama's dubious advice to black youth, and the workings of affirmative action at elite universities.
Contributors
Michael Collins, Richard Thompson Ford, Helena Hansen, David Herzberg, Peter James Hudson, Jonathan Kahn, L.A. Kauffman, Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Jordanna Matlon, Max Mishler, Donna Murch, Julie Netherland, Britt Rusert, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Alys Eve Weinbaum
List of contents
Lead essay by Donna Murch. Responses by Max Mishler, Britt Rusert, Julie Netherland, Helena Hansen, David Herzberg, Michael Collins, Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Jonathan Kahn, L.A. Kauffman, and Donna Murch. Peter Hudson, Jordanna Matlon, Alys Weinbaum, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Richard Ford.
About the author
Donna Murch, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, is the author of
Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland and the forthcoming
Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives.
Donna Murch, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, is the author of
Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland and the forthcoming
Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives.
