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 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
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674743997
• | ISBN-13: 9780674743991