1. Clarence Lusane, Race in the Global Era: African Americans at the Millennium (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1996), 130–32.
2. For a sampling of historical studies see Richard Ashley, Cocaine: Its History, Uses and Effects (New York: Warner Books, 1975)
3. John Jennings, The Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism and Drug Trafficking in Asia, 1895–1945 (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1997)
4. Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Brooklyn, NY: Lawrence Hill Books, 1991)
5. James Rush, Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860–1910 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990)