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Smith, Benjamin T. and Pansters, Wil G. (2020) US moral panics, Mexican politics, and the borderlands origins of the war on drugs. Journal of Contemporary History, 55 (2). pp. 364-387. doi:10.1177/0022009418790664 ISSN 0022-0094.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418790664
Abstract
During the 1950s Californian civil society advocates and politicians developed a moral panic over youth narcotic use. One of the key elements of this moral panic was the assertion that most drugs came over the border and that the only solution to this problem was blackmailing Mexico through temporary closure of the border. The idea not only became a tenet of later drug policy, but also, in conjunction with pressure from Mexico’s own moral reformers, forced regional politicians in Mexico to enact periodic clean up campaigns.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General) H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History > Comparative American Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Drug control -- Califòrnia, Moral panics -- Califòrnia, Mexico -- Government policy -- 1946-1970 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Contemporary History | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0022-0094 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 55 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 364-387 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0022009418790664 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Smith, B. T., & Pansters, W. G. (2018). US Moral Panics, Mexican Politics, and the Borderlands Origins of the War on Drugs, 1950–62. Journal of Contemporary History. Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. Additionally, please provide a link to the appropriate DOI for the published version of the Contribution on the SAGE Journals website (http://journals.sagepub.com). | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 May 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 May 2019 |
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