Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-10-03
Books mentioned on Cracktoberfest Part One: Constructing the Crack "Epidemic"
Robert and Prop sit down to talk about an epidemic that wasn't. A five part series See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington and Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts.
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Medical Apartheid
Discussed“As a medical writer, Harriet Washington wrote of this period in her book Medical Aparttheid. Dr. Chasnoff's provisional research was swallowed whole, then regurgitated in a racialized form by newspaper, magazine, and even medical accounts.”
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Killing the Black Body
Discussed“The legal scholar Dorothy Roberts argues in her reproductive history, killing the black body, that by for focusing on maternal use of a drug associated with black people, the press promoted the notion that the monstrous crack smoking mother was typical of black women.”
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