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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Preface
Introduction: “The Reign of Criminal Terror Must Be Stopped Now”
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

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