How Long to Read The Suburban Crisis

How Long Does it Take to Read The Suburban Crisis?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 20 minutes to read The Suburban Crisis by Matthew D. Lassiter

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How the drug war transformed American political culture Since the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration whenever they break the law. The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today. In this incisive political history, Matthew Lassiter shows how the category of the “white middle-class victim” has been as central to the politics and culture of the drug war as racial stereotypes like the “foreign trafficker,” “urban pusher,” and “predatory ghetto addict.” He describes how the futile mission to safeguard and control white suburban youth shaped the enactment of the nation’s first mandatory-minimum drug laws in the 1950s, and how soaring marijuana arrests of white Americans led to demands to refocus on “real criminals” in inner cities. The 1980s brought “just say no” moralizing in the white suburbs and militarized crackdowns in urban centers. The Suburban Crisis reveals how the escalating drug war merged punitive law enforcement and coercive public health into a discriminatory system for the social control of teenagers and young adults, and how liberal and conservative lawmakers alike pursued an agenda of racialized criminalization.

How long is The Suburban Crisis?

The Suburban Crisis by Matthew D. Lassiter is 680 pages long, and a total of 170,000 words.

This makes it 229% the length of the average book. It also has 208% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Suburban Crisis Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 28 minutes to read The Suburban Crisis aloud.

What Reading Level is The Suburban Crisis?

The Suburban Crisis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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