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Peer reviewedCovington, Jeanette – Social Justice, 1997
Examines how the minority drug problem is framed in terms of anomie and underclass models suggesting that drug subcultures in urban black areas are formed as an adaptation to aggregate community conditions. The article considers how researchers use ecological and ethnographic data to back up claims that drug subcultures are a response to inner…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Characteristics, Culture, Drug Use
