* HIS 393
/ AAS 364
/ WWS 492
- Spring 2011-2012
(HA)
Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America
From "Chinese opium" to Oxycontin, and from cocaine and "crack" to BiDil, drug controversies reflect enduring debates about the role of medicine, the law, the policing of ethnic identity, and racial difference. This course explores the history of controversial substances (prescription medicines, over-the-counter products, black market substances, psychoactive drugs), and how, from cigarettes to alcohol and opium, they become vehicles for heated debates over immigration, identity, cultural and biological difference, criminal character, the line between legality and illegality, and the boundaries of the normal and the pathological.
Sample reading list:
Wolfgang Schivelbusch,
Tastes of Paradise
Cassandra Tate,
Cigarette Wars
Nicolas Rassmussen,
On Speed
Doris Marie Provine,
Unequal Under Law
Jill Jonnes,
Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams
Jonathan Kahn,
How a Drug Becomes Ethnic:
Reading/Writing assignments:
Approximately 150-200 pages per week. One short paper, 5-7 pages; one longer paper, 12-17 pages. Final examination.
Requirements/Grading:
Final Exam - 30%
Papers - 55%
Precept Participation - 15%
Schedule/Classroom assignment:
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Class number: 41087
Section: L01
Time:
11:00 am
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11:50 am
Days:
T
Th
Building-Room:
Guyot Hall
10
Enrolled/Limit:
82/
135
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Section: P01
Time:
10:00 am
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10:50 am
Days:
M
Building-Room:
Dickinson Hall
210
Enrolled/Limit:
6/
15
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Section: P02
Time:
1:30 pm
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2:20 pm
Days:
T
Building-Room:
McCosh Hall
B24
Enrolled/Limit:
13/
15
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Section: P03
Time:
2:30 pm
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3:20 pm
Days:
T
Building-Room:
McCosh Hall
B24
Enrolled/Limit:
13/
15
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Section: P04
Time:
10:00 am
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10:50 am
Days:
W
Building-Room:
Henry House
15
Enrolled/Limit:
11/
15
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Section: P05
Time:
11:00 am
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11:50 am
Days:
W
Building-Room:
Henry House
15
Enrolled/Limit:
11/
15
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Section: P06
Time:
1:30 pm
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2:20 pm
Days:
Th
Building-Room:
Friend Center of Engineering
306
Enrolled/Limit:
14/
15
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Section: P07
Time:
2:30 pm
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3:20 pm
Days:
Th
Building-Room:
Lewis Library
311
Enrolled/Limit:
8/
15
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Section: P08
Time:
3:30 pm
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4:20 pm
Days:
Th
Building-Room:
Lewis Library
311
Enrolled/Limit:
6/
15