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

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
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Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. Rights and Wreckage in Postwar Harlem --   |t 2. Black Junkies, White Do- Gooders, and the Metcalf- Volker Act of 1962 --   |t 3. Reverend Dempsey’s Crusade and the Rise of Involuntary Commitment in 1966 --   |t 4. Crime, Class, and Conflict in the Ghetto --   |t 5. King Heroin and the Development of the Drug Laws in 1973 --   |t 6. Race, Place, and the Tumultuous 1960s and 1970s --   |t Conclusion “Liberal Sentiments to Conservative Acts” --   |t Notes --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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