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Donna Murch

Donna Murch is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

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How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

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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How Race Made the Opioid Crisis — Final Response

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

Donna Murch

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History Matters

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

Donna Murch

Law & Justice, Race

Paying for Punishment

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

Donna Murch

Race

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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