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Black silent majority : the Rockefeller drug laws and the politics of punishment / Michael Javen Fortner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fortner, Michael Javen, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--New York (State).
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Middle class.
- African Americans.
- Social conditions.
- African American criminals.
- New York (State).
- African American criminals--New York (State).
- Drug control--New York (State).
- Drug control.
- African Americans--New York (State)--Social conditions.
- Middle class--New York (State).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 350 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- 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
- Crime, class, and conflict in the ghetto
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674743991
- 0674743997
- OCLC:
- 906027953
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