Katherine (Hrsg.) Tate

Something's in the Air

Race, Crime, and the Legalization of Marijuana

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America's drug laws have always exerted an unequal and unfair toll on Blacks and Latinos, who are arrested more often than Whites for the possession of illegal drugs and given harsher sentences. In this volume, contributors ask how would marijuana legalization affect communities of color? Is legalization of marijuana necessary to safeguard minority families from a lifetime of hardship and inequality? Who in minority communities favors legalization and why, and do these minority opinions differ from the opinions held by White Americans? This volume also includes analyses of the policy debate by a range of scholars addressing economic, health,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Taylor, James Lance (Hrsg.) / Sawyer, Mark Q. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-135-01705-7
EAN: 9781135017057
Produktnummer: 16948534
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 190 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'838 KB
Abbildungen: 19 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Katherine Tate is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author and coauthor of several books, including most recently, What's Going On? Political Incorporation and the Transformation of Black Public Opinion. James Lance Taylor is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of San Francisco. Taylor is the author of Black Nationalism in the United States: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama. Mark Q. Sawyer is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at UCLA. He is the author of the award winning book, Racial Politics in Post Revolutionary Cuba, and co-editor of Just Neighbors?: Research on African Americans and Latino Relations in the United States.