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."
Awards 2015, The Herbert H. Lehman Prize for History
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