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Author Fortner, Michael Javen, 1979-

Title Black silent majority : the Rockefeller drug laws and the politics of punishment / Michael Javen Fortner.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  364.133 F743B    Check Shelf
Description xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-333) and index.
Contents Introduction : the reign of criminal terror must be stopped now -- Rights and wreckage in postwar Harlem -- Black junkies, white do-gooders, and the Metcalf-Volker Act of 1962 -- Reverend Dempsey's crusade and the rise of involuntary commitment in 1966 -- Black silent majority -- King heroin and the development of the drug laws in 1973 -- Race, place, and the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion : liberal sentiments to conservative acts.
Summary "Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of millions of African Americans--far in excess of their representation in the population as a whole. Michael Javen Fortner [argues] that these punitive policies also enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, who were angry about decline and disorder in their communities. [His book examines] the role African Americans played in creating today's system of mass incarceration"--Dust jacket flap.
Subject Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- New York (State)
African American criminals -- New York (State)
Drug control -- New York (State)
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Social conditions.
Middle class -- New York (State)
African American criminals. (OCoLC)fst00799127
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Discrimination in criminal justice administration. (OCoLC)fst00895034
Drug control. (OCoLC)fst01032891
Middle class. (OCoLC)fst01020437
New York (State) (OCoLC)fst01210280
Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich.
New York (Etats-Unis, état)
ISBN 9780674743991 (alkaline paper)
0674743997 (alkaline paper)
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