Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment

Aggressive policing and draconian sentencing have disproportionately imprisoned millions of African Americans for drug-related offenses. Michael Javen...
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Author: Michael Javen Fortner
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Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment by Fortner, Michael Javen

Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment

$111.75

Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment

$111.75
Author: Michael Javen Fortner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Aggressive policing and draconian sentencing have disproportionately imprisoned millions of African Americans for drug-related offenses. Michael Javen Fortner shows that in the 1970s these punitive policies toward addicts and pushers enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, angry about the chaos in their own neighborhoods.

Author: Michael Javen Fortner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780674743991


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/27/2015 pg. 14
Choice 07/01/2016
New York Times Book Review 10/04/2015 pg. 26

About the Author
Fortner, Michael Javen: - Michael Javen Fortner is Assistant Professor and Academic Director of Urban Studies at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, Murphy Institute.

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