Michael Javen Fortner

Michael Javen Fortner is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and the author of Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment.

Contributions

“The Message”: Order Maintenance and Its Discontents

What can survey data tell us about how racial minorities think about crime, disorder and the police?

Michael Javen Fortner

The Drug War: Race and Reality

What Charlie Rangel’s rise tells us about Black New York and substance abuse

Michael Javen Fortner