The Silenced Majority
Title | The Silenced Majority PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Goodman |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1608462315 |
A collection of newspaper and magazine articles where Goodman and Moynihan take an anti-establishment stance and get to the heart of today's critical news stories and political events
Black Silent Majority
Title | Black Silent Majority PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Javen Fortner |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2015-09-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674743997 |
Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of millions of African Americans—far in excess of their representation in the population as a whole. Michael Javen Fortner shows in this eye-opening account that these punitive policies also enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, who were angry about decline and disorder in their communities. Black Silent Majority uncovers the role African Americans played in creating today’s system of mass incarceration. Current anti-drug policies are based on a set of controversial laws first adopted in New York in the early 1970s and championed by the state’s Republican governor, Nelson Rockefeller. Fortner traces how many blacks in New York came to believe that the rehabilitation-focused liberal policies of the 1960s had failed. Faced with economic malaise and rising rates of addiction and crime, they blamed addicts and pushers. By 1973, the outcry from grassroots activists and civic leaders in Harlem calling for drastic measures presented Rockefeller with a welcome opportunity to crack down on crime and boost his political career. New York became the first state to mandate long prison sentences for selling or possessing narcotics. Black Silent Majority lays bare the tangled roots of a pernicious system. America’s drug policies, while in part a manifestation of the conservative movement, are also a product of black America’s confrontation with crime and chaos in its own neighborhoods.
The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority
Title | The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Felsenthal |
Publisher | Doubleday Books |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Authentically Black
Title | Authentically Black PDF eBook |
Author | John McWhorter |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781592400461 |
A new collection of thought-provoking essays by the best-selling author of Losing the Race examines what it means to be black in modern-day America, addressing such issues as racial profiling, the reparations movement, film and TV stereotypes, diversity, affirmative action, and hip-hop, while calling for the advancement of true racial equality. Reprint.
Children of the Silent Majority
Title | Children of the Silent Majority PDF eBook |
Author | Seth Blumenthal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9780700627011 |
How President Nixon's forward thinking, innovative appeal to young voters and youth leaders after 1968 led to Republican Party success in the 1980s.
The Silent Patient
Title | The Silent Patient PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Michaelides |
Publisher | Celadon Books |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2019-02-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250301718 |
**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....
Democrats for Life
Title | Democrats for Life PDF eBook |
Author | Kristen Day |
Publisher | New Leaf Publishing Group |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0892216379 |
In a shocking expose, Kristen Day reveals the agenda of the modern Democratic Party leadership, which hijacked the grassroots movement to push through Roe vs. Wade. Drawing from historical background, and her own experience in Washington, Day provides strong evidence that abortion on demand is not the mindset of real America.