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The "War on Drugs" is a set of drug law enforcement policies and practices connected to racial inequality. It is also a topic of public debate, often in mass media. To understand this debate, we analyze two large samples of newspaper manuscripts and online comments discussing the "War on Drugs". We identify several trends in how this issue is debated, even within arguments against it, that rationalize and obscure its racial implications.
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This page is a summary of: Speaking through Silence: Racial Discourse and Identity Construction in Mass-mediated Debates on the “War on Drugs”, Social Currents, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2329496516663223.
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