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Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber.

Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld.

Based on interviews, archival research, judicial records, underground videos, and prison memoirs, Crack explains why the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the 'Horatio Alger boys' of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization.

Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late twentieth-century capitalism and discusses the racist drug policies that led to mass incarceration.

Language: English

Pages: 222

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: October 10, 2019

ISBN: 1108425275

ISBN 13: 9781108425278

Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber.

Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld.

Based on interviews, archival research, judicial records, underground videos, and prison memoirs, Crack explains why the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the 'Horatio Alger boys' of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization.

Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late twentieth-century capitalism and discusses the racist drug policies that led to mass incarceration.

Language: English

Pages: 222

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: October 10, 2019

ISBN: 1108425275

ISBN 13: 9781108425278

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