The War On Drugs
Baking powder, cocaine,and a stove were used to create a inexpensive and potent new product called?
Crack
In 1984 who ran for president that influenced black men of the writer's generation and the writer himself to feel like they had a say in the US presidential politics?
Jesse Jackson
What did Anita Hill testify?
She testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1981 to 1982
What act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton?
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
phencyclidine is more commonly known as?
Angel dust or PCP
What is conscious hip hop?
Conscious hip hop was ¨a style of music that went along with Jesse Jackson's campaigns for president, and it signaled the convergence of civil rights /black power era politics with an emerging hip-hop political voice. ¨
During this time who was the only African American to be appointed to the supreme court?
Thurgood Marshall
What became the problem with the Crime Bill?
The remarks Bill Clinton made ¨reflected the expansive reach of the discourse on law and order which tended to conflate crime with civil rights protests in the South with the widespread turmoil generated by racism in the north¨
What is what New York officials called "The cheapest game in town¨?
The cheapest game in town was the New York´s cheapest option for the drug abuse problem the city was experiencing since you could put eight people in a drug program for the cost of a single prison bed
What hip hop rappers tapped in core messages of the 1960s and 70s referencing book titles honoring in on aspects of black history?
Eric B and Rakim, Public Enemy, and Boogie Down Productions
What was the Clarence Thomas effect?
The Clarence Thomas effect was hearings during this time that set-in motion a breakup between African American voters and the Republican party
What did the the deindustrialization of the US economy do to working class black communities in 1994?
¨There was a mass of loss of jobs in manufacturing in cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. According to Joe William Trotter the black urban working class nearly disappeared by the early 1990s. This with the disestablishment of welfare state benefits this caused vast numbers of black people to seek other sometimes illegal means of survival¨
Why were female drug users especially frequent targets of denunciation?
Female drug users some of them including being pregnant simply did not care about the health of their unborn child, the maternal instinct was being destroyed by the addiction for drugs
Why was the early 1980s marked by Louis Farrakhan´s rise to the leadership of the new Nation of Islam?
Farrakhan was an avid supporter of Jesse Jackson during the 1984 campaign. When Farrakhan and Jackson stood together during the campaign, they helped people imagine new possibilities beyond the historic integration versus separation divide
Even though history winded up repeating itself how was it different for Christine Balsey Ford this time around when she made her allegations?
This time a four paged ad with 1600 names appeared in The Sunday Times and they wrote we believe Anita Hill, we also believe Christine Balsey Ford. The significance of this was that the signatories were all men of various races who were taking up the charge given to them by black woman almost 30 years earlier
What was the main goal when 3500 advocates, activists, artist, and scholars all gathered under the rubric critical resistance beyond the prison industrial complex?
¨The ultimate goal of this gathering was to propose new vocabularies and new discourse that would help to shift the ¨law and order¨ rhetoric to one that acknowledged the role played by multifaced criminalization of black, brown, and poor communities in consolidating the punitive turn¨