Racial Discrepancies in the Participation Between Alcohol Prohibition and the Drug War

Whalin Luke L.; Block Walter E.

doi:10.1515/aet-2017-0013

Acta Economica et Turistica (Dec 2017)

Racial Discrepancies in the Participation Between Alcohol Prohibition and the Drug War

Whalin Luke L.,
Block Walter E.

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Whalin Luke L.: Joseph A. Butt, S.J. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, 6363 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118
Block Walter E.: Ph. D., Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, Joseph A. Butt, S.J. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, 6363 St. Charles Avenue, Box 15, Miller Hall 318, New Orleans, LA 70118; phone: (504) 864 7934; fax: (504) 864 7970

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aet-2017-0013
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 119 – 135

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Why is it that young Italian-American men were shooting each other over turf during the prohibition of alcohol in the 20th century, and young African-American men are shooting each other over turf in the 21st? Was this just a historical accident? Could it easily have been the other way around? That is the question with which the present paper attempts to wrestle.

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