Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment is a non-fiction book written by Michael Javen Fortner.[1]

Black Silent Majority
AuthorMichael Javen Fortner
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherHarvard University Press[1]
Publication date
2015
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages368 pp
ISBN978-0674743991

Overview

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A look into the role of how America's drug policies impact African Americans and crime in their own neighborhoods.

Critical reception

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The New York Times said in a review of the book, "The history of black people’s ability to express and to act on their punitiveness—to be tough on crime—is at the heart of a fascinating though severely flawed new book by Michael Javen Fortner."

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