... continue to punish these poverty-stricken and usually violently abused women (Paltrow 7). A drug-addicted father has yet to be charged for providing a mother with the drugs that were eventually exposed to their child. Men have been totally stripped of their responsibilities as fathers in the eyes of the law. Under Michael Omi and Howard Winant's theories of racial formation ... , CRACK can be identified as a racial project. In Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States, a racial project is defined as "simultaneously an interpretation ... daily basis just to survive. Unjustly...

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