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

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

Michael Javen Fortner

368 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 re...

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