Black Silent Majority : : The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment / / Michael Javen Fortner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Fortner, Michael Javen,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 9 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. Rights and Wreckage in Postwar Harlem --; 2. Black Junkies, White Do- Gooders, and the Metcalf- Volker Act of 1962 --; 3. Reverend Dempsey’s Crusade and the Rise of Involuntary Commitment in 1966 --; 4. Crime, Class, and Conflict in the Ghetto --; 5. King Heroin and the Development of the Drug Laws in 1973 --; 6. Race, Place, and the Tumultuous 1960s and 1970s --; Conclusion “Liberal Sentiments to Conservative Acts” --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674496088; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674496088
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Javen Fortner.

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.