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Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 978-0674743991 | 3.5/5 Goodreads Publication date 2015 Pages 368 pp Originally published 7 September 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment is a non-fiction book written by Michael Javen Fortner.
Contents
Overview
A look into the role of how America's drug policies impact African Americans and crime in their own neighborhoods.
Critical reception
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."
References
Black Silent Majority Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA