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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 9 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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