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The remainder of this introduction reviews the severely-distressed conditions faced by many African American families during the 1980s and 1990s, the historical tradition of extended family among African Americans, and the Crack Era as a defining historical event for many.
11 lip 2023 · When the crack epidemic is mentioned now, it’s usually as a punch line. Crack as a superdrug, dealers as superpredators, irredeemable crackheads and crack babies all get evoked to prove a point.
President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of crack cocaine during his Address to the Nation on National Drug Control Strategy on September 5, 1989. The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s.
25 paź 2024 · Crack epidemic, the significant increase in the use of crack cocaine, or crack, in the United States during the early 1980s. Crack cocaine was popularized because of its affordability, its immediate euphoric effect, and its high profitability. The crack epidemic had particularly devastating effects.
11 lip 2023 · For those people, the crack epidemic was and continues to be an idea that encapsulates everything bad about the ’80s and ’90s—the poverty, crime, gangs, violence, everything the ghetto represented in America after the civil-rights movement.
The term “crack head” is an expression born in the mid-1980s. By the late 1980s the term denoted a stigmatized status and was well known in both the inner cities and society at large.
11 lip 2023 · What We Meant When We Said 'Crackhead' “I’ve learned, through hundreds of interviews and years of research, is that what crack really did was expose every vulnerability of society.” by Donovan X. Ramsey via The Atlantic on July 11, 2023. Book. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era. Donovan X. Ramsey. 2023.
