Black Silent Majority: Race, Class, and the Politics of Punishment
Wed, January 30, 2019 - Dinner Program
Michael J. Fortner
Michael Fortner, assistant professor of political science at City University of New York’s Graduate Center and author of “Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment” will address the rise of crime and drug addiction in African American communities in the post-Civil Rights era and discuss the role the black middle class played in the development of mass incarceration.