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

Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
ISBN-10
0674743997
ISBN-13
9780674743991
Category
History
Pages
350
Language
English
Published
2015-09-07
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Michael Javen Fortner

Description

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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