Geeking and Freaking

IF 0.4 4区 历史学 Q3 HISTORY
Adrianna Finamore
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Abstract

This article explores the intersection of race, class, and gender to demonstrate how inner-city, crack-addicted black women, in particular mothers, were seen by the American public as the antithesis of the “traditional conservative family values” that emerged politically in the 1980s. Black women addicted to crack cocaine in the 1980s and 1990s were objects of public contempt, largely due to negative media portrayals and the political agenda of the religious New Right. As a result, they faced harsh criticism and systemic mistreatment. Through an examination of a variety of media outlets, legislation, and political agendas, as well as scholarship from fields such as public health, sociology, and criminology, this work orients the mistreatment of crack-addicted women within the greater historical context of both the backlash against women’s rights and the desire to cling to conservative family values established in postwar America.
极客和怪胎
这篇文章探讨了种族、阶级和性别的交集,以展示美国公众如何将贫民区、吸毒成瘾的黑人女性,尤其是母亲,视为20世纪80年代政治上出现的“传统保守家庭价值观”的对立面。在20世纪80年代和90年代,沉溺于快克可卡因的黑人女性是公众蔑视的对象,这主要是由于媒体的负面描述和宗教新右派的政治议程。结果,他们面临严厉的批评和系统性的虐待。通过对各种媒体渠道、立法和政治议程的考察,以及来自公共卫生、社会学和犯罪学等领域的学术研究,这本书在更大的历史背景下定位了对可卡因成瘾妇女的虐待,这两个历史背景是对妇女权利的强烈反对,以及对战后美国建立的保守家庭价值观的坚持。
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