[PDF.24hx] Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment

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

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 | #484638 in Books |  2015-09-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x1.10 x5.80l,.0 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| Timely, balanced, and informative|By L. M. Crane|Balanced, well researched, and informative, The Black Silent Majority provides a timely review of how drugs, crime, and racism intersected to affect the black middle class and lead to harsher drug laws. Currently we hear much about "mass incarceration" and its racial implications. Before we can address the subject, we need to| |Provocative… As Fortner’s book makes clear, no political movement can afford to ignore the kind of cruel disorder that we euphemistically call common crime. A police force that kills black citizens is adding to America’s history of racial vi

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 shows in this eye-opening account that these punitive policies also enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, who were angry about dec...

You easily download any file type for your device.Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment   |  Michael Javen Fortner.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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