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Donna Murch

Donna Murch is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

Articles

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

Donna Murch

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

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