On Freedom by Maggie Nelson

Author:Maggie Nelson [Nelson, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

In the case of Crack Wars, one doesn’t even have to look past its title, whose aforementioned bait and switch highlights its own chaotic symptomology. For whatever horrors the transgressions of Emma Bovary/EB/Ronell may provoke, they fade in comparison with the brutal state-sponsored persecution and punishment of Black people, including Black mothers, that characterize the War on Drugs.11 Yet whatever unease, revulsion, and anger I’ve felt on this account has, over time, deepened my interest in Crack Wars. For by throwing EB into the combustible cauldron of the “war on drugs,” Ronell invites certain questions about the relationship between white girls and the racialized construction of drugs and transgression—questions that go mostly unanswered in Crack Wars, but which crack open the door to further inquiry.

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