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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.


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  • Author : Michael Javen Fortner
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Total Pages : 365 pages
  • ISBN : 0674743997
  • PDF File Size : 34,9 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Black Silent Majority

Black Silent Majority
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • File Size : 45,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 07 September 2015
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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

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  • Release Date : 04 March 2019
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The transformation of Southern politics over the past fifty years has been one of the most significant developments in American political life. The emergence of formidable Republican strength in the