Black Silent Majority : The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment / Michael Javen Fortner.
2015
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Title
Black Silent Majority : The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment / Michael Javen Fortner.
Edition
Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only.
Imprint
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Description
1 online resource (368 p.) : 9 halftones
Formatted Contents Note
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Rights and Wreckage in Postwar Harlem
2. Black Junkies, White Do- Gooders, and the Metcalf- Volker Act of 1962
3. Reverend Dempsey's Crusade and the Rise of Involuntary Commitment in 1966
4. Crime, Class, and Conflict in the Ghetto
5. King Heroin and the Development of the Drug Laws in 1973
6. Race, Place, and the Tumultuous 1960s and 1970s
Conclusion "Liberal Sentiments to Conservative Acts"
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Rights and Wreckage in Postwar Harlem
2. Black Junkies, White Do- Gooders, and the Metcalf- Volker Act of 1962
3. Reverend Dempsey's Crusade and the Rise of Involuntary Commitment in 1966
4. Crime, Class, and Conflict in the Ghetto
5. King Heroin and the Development of the Drug Laws in 1973
6. Race, Place, and the Tumultuous 1960s and 1970s
Conclusion "Liberal Sentiments to Conservative Acts"
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Summary
Aggressive policing and draconian sentencing have disproportionately imprisoned millions of African Americans for drug-related offenses. Michael Javen Fortner shows that in the 1970s these punitive policies toward addicts and pushers enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, angry about the chaos in their own neighborhoods.
Language Note
In English.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Title is part of eBook package: Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 De Gruyter
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DeGruyter online
Language
English
ISBN
9780674496088
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