Donna Murch

Donna Murch is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

How Race Made the Opioid Crisis — Final Response

We need a broad-based, anti-racist campaign.

  • Donna Murch

How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always turned on racial and economic difference.

  • Donna Murch
with responses from
  • Max Mishler
  • Britt Rusert
  • Helena Hansen, Julie Netherland, and David Herzberg
  • Michael Collins
  • Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
  • Jonathan Kahn
  • L.A. Kauffman

History Matters

This is a powerful alternative to the myth of post-racialism.

  • Donna Murch

Paying for Punishment

Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.

  • Donna Murch

Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration?

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

  • Donna Murch
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