TY - BOOK ID - 77919390 TI - Drug laws and institutional racism : the story told by the Congressional record PY - 2011 SN - 1593326602 9781593326609 PB - El Paso, Tex. : LFB Scholarly Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Drug control KW - Narcotic laws KW - Racism KW - Sociological jurisprudence KW - Law KW - Law and society KW - Society and law KW - Sociology of law KW - Jurisprudence KW - Sociology KW - Law and the social sciences KW - Narcotics KW - Drugs KW - Pharmacy KW - Drug enforcement KW - Drug law enforcement KW - Drug policy KW - Drug traffic KW - Drug traffic control KW - Narcotics, Control of KW - War on drugs KW - Vice control KW - Social aspects KW - History. KW - Law and legislation KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77919390 AB - Chambers's hypothesis is that an historical analysis of the Congressional discussions surrounding the opium laws in the late 1800's and early 1900's, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 will illustrate that competition and threat, economic and/or political, were present prior to the enactment of the laws. Analyses indicate that while economic and to a limited extent political competition between Chinese immigrants and white Americans affected the passage of the opium laws, economic and political competition had little effect on the Marihuana Tax Act or the Anti-D ER -