High Life:Drug Cult. Inequity

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course will provide an interdisciplinary examination of how and when Black, Brown, and Indigenous cultures and philosophies of embodiment have challenged and intervened on U.S. drug policy history and politics. Drawing from behavioral studies, policy, film, music, literature, and art, the course will place Black, Brown, and Indigenous spirituality, ritual, culture, experimentation and illicit economies side-by-side and in conversation with histories of colonization, spiritual conversion, capitalism, pharmaceutical industries, and contemporary scientific research to better understand the role that constructions of race, gender, sexuality, and empire play in our past and contemporary understanding of drug abuse, drug addiction, and drug regulation.