Black Silent Majority


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

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."
The Boston Review wrote: "Black Silent Majority skillfully incorporates and blunts opposing arguments but refuses to take seriously the consequences of poverty, redlining, and other forms of structural exclusion."

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