Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs

by Fisher

Beware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America's moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation's racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea that early antidrug laws in the US arose from racial animus, George Fisher instead shows in textured detail how US drug laws were driven by a deep-seated cultural taboo against euphoria and a preoccupation with white moral integrity.

From nineteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197688489
• ISBN13: 9780197688489
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 8.7"