Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780674743991)

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
ISBN-10: 0674743997
ISBN-13: 9780674743991
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2015
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 1.10d

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