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

Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment Hardback - 2015

by Michael Javen Fortner

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Hardback. New. 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.
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  • Title Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
  • Author Michael Javen Fortner
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 364
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2015-09-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780674743991
  • ISBN 9780674743991 / 0674743997
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.1 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects Drug control - New York (State), Discrimination in criminal justice
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015012136
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.133

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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.

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  • Choice, 07/01/2016, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 09/27/2015, Page 14

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