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

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

Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment By Michael Javen Fortner
2015 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0674743997 | EPUB | 1 MB


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.