Class Id: 7850
Days: TTh
Start Time: 11:00 AM
End Time: 11:50 AM
Building: MCCOH
Room: 62
Course Id: 3463
Departments and Numbers: AAS 364, WWS 492
Area: SA
Title: Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America
Description: From "Chinese opium" to Oxycontin, and from cocaine and "Crack" to BiDil, drug controversies reflect enduring debates about the role of medicine, the law, the policing of ethnic identity, and racial difference. This course explores the history of controversial substances (prescription medicines, over-the-counter products, black market substances, psychoactive drugs), and how, from cigarettes to alcohol and opium, these substances become vehicles for heated debates over immigration, identity, cultural and biological difference, criminal character, the line between legality and illegality, and the boundaries of the normal and the pathological.
Prerequisites:
Professors: Carolyn B. Eisert, Keith A. Wailoo, Tomiko C. Ballantyne-Nisbett
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