Black Silent Majority

The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment

Michael Javen Fortner

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$36.00 • £31.95 • €32.95

ISBN 9780674743991

Publication Date: 09/28/2015

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368 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

9 halftones

World

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Michael Javen Fortner is Assistant Professor and Academic Director of Urban Studies at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, Murphy Institute.

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2016 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History, New York Academy of History

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016

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