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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
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2023
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Identity Orchestration: Black Lives, Balance, and the Psychology of Self Stories
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“What Bennett would have likely learned from the Barry administration was that arrests and incarcerations would prove futile as long as the drug trade provided economic opportunity, and as long as treatment needs went unmet.”
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
“The Nixon administration did not require evidence that drug use was linked to rising crime, however. And it did not need to prove to the American public that doped-up Blacks were responsible for that crime. It had two facts: drug use was up, and so was violent crime in big cities. Americans would fill in the blank, using the same brutal imagination they always had to rationalize a war on drugs targeting Black Americans.”
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
“More than any other individual rapper, Dr. Dre deserves recognition for his role in helping turn the page on the crack epidemic. As a member of N.W.A. and producer for the group, he helped articulate the conditions of life in the ghetto on songs like “Dopeman,” “Fuck tha Police,” and “Gangsta Gangsta.” Then in 1992, three years after leaving N.W.A., Dr. Dre dropped his magnum opus, The Chronic. The album is ranked by many, including Vibe, Spin, and Rolling Stone, as one of the greatest albums of all time.”
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
― When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
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