The War on Drugs: Race, Class, Colonialism and the Politics of Pleasures
With Kojo Koram, Mike Jay, Debra Benita Shaw and Jeremy Gilbert It is now a matter of historical record that when Nixon and his aides officially launched their ‘war on drugs’ in the late 1960s, their express intention was to criminalise black radicalism and the counterculture. But the link between racism and the drug […]