{"id":2656,"date":"2023-06-01T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2023-06-01T15:30:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:30:36","slug":"june-2023-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/2023\/06\/01\/june-2023-good-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"june 2023 \u2013 good to read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America<\/h3>\t\t\t

Helena Hansen, David Herzberg and Jules Netherland<\/em>
\nBlack people on drugs get police, prison, and methadone; white folks get therapy, sympathy, and buprenorphine. Meanwhile, the biggest dealers, pharmaceutical companies, get fines and wrist slaps, but continue to profit by creating addicts and then selling<\/em>\u00a0drugs promising a cure.\u00a0Why?\u00a0The answers are here.
\nUniversity of California Press\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock<\/h3>\t\t\t

Robert J. Campbell<\/em>
\nCampbell relates how LSD allowed users to enhance the perception of alternative realities and describes its wide-scale use in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco from 1964 to 1967. Combining literature, social history, and personal experience, the author traces the birth, downfall, and legacy of the innovative, playful, and spontaneous counterculture launched in 1960s Haight-Ashbury.
\nSuny Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Waiting to Inhale. Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice<\/h3>\t\t\t

Akwasi Owusu Bempah, Tahira Rehmatullah<\/em>
\nFrom the start, the War on Drugs targeted Black, Brown, and Indigenous Americans already disadvantaged by a system stacked against them. Even now, as white Americans who largely escaped the fire capitalize on the legalization movement and a booming cannabis industry, their less fortunate peers continue to suffer the consequences of the systemic racism in policing and failed drug policy that fueled the original crisis.
\nMIT Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Alay-Oop<\/h3>\t\t\t

William Gropper<\/em>
\n\u00abThe book is a witty social realist graphic novel of life among working-class variety performers\u2014or maybe it\u2019s a graphic ballad, with its surface simplicity. But the story gains in depth on repeated viewing\u2014and each viewing is a delight, as Gropper\u2019s cartooning masterfully reveals character through expressive gestures in efficiently observed spaces. He tells his story with a bold, graceful, and athletic brush line\u2014somehow both light and weighty\u2014that soars and swings across the pages until the artist, and the woman at the center of this tale, land firmly on their feet.\u00bb (Art Spiegelman)
\nNew York Review Comics<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Set and Setting. Kerim Seiler (1997-2022)<\/h3>\t\t\t

Anne Vieth, Walter K\u00f6nig, Stefan Zweifel<\/em>
\nThere\u2019s a new, English-language book out about my son, an artist and also the president of gaiamedia. It provides detailed and graphically elaborate insights into twenty-five years of his artistic work. In addition to its documentary character, the book deals with art history. Various theoretical approaches can be distinguished and interpreted looking at Kerim’s endeavors. (sgs)
\nCornerhouse Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helena Hansen, David Herzberg and Jules Netherland Black people on drugs get police, prison, and methadone; white folks get therapy, sympathy, and buprenorphine. Meanwhile, the biggest dealers, pharmaceutical companies, get fines and wrist slaps, but continue to profit by creating addicts and then selling\u00a0drugs promising a cure.\u00a0Why?\u00a0The answers are here. University of California Press\u00a0 RobertContinue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaiamedia.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}