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Donna Murch

Donna Murch is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

Articles

Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority makes the controversial case that African Americans backed the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Donna Murch

Forums

The success of OxyContin hinged on racially bifurcated understandings of addiction. The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine, after all, has always been the race and class of users.
Donna Murch

Forum Responses

We need a broad-based, anti-racist campaign.
Donna Murch
This is a powerful alternative to the myth of post-racialism.
Donna Murch

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