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010 _a 2015005531
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020 _a9781440832475
_q(hardback ;
_qalk. paper)
020 _a1440832471
_q(hardback ;
_qalk. paper)
020 _z9781440832482
_q(ebook)
020 _z144083248X
035 _a(OCoLC)881439960
050 0 0 _aKF4893
_b.B76 2015
082 0 0 _a324.6/208900973
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092 _a324.6208
_bB877v
100 1 _aBrown, Donathan L.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aVoting rights under fire :
_bthe continuing struggle for people of color /
_cDonathan L. Brown and Michael L. Clemons.
264 1 _aSanta Barbara, California :
_bPraeger,
_c[2015]
300 _axxv, 207 pages ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aRacism in American institutions
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Voter identification laws then and now -- Formulating democracy : Development and evolution of voting rights in America -- Felon disenfranchisement and voting rights -- On the birth of voter identification laws : Crawford v. Marion County -- Controversy in the Keystone State : A Pennsylvania story -- In defense of voter ID : Texas v. Holder and Shelby v. Holder -- Conclusion : Current trends in voter ID laws and felon disenfranchisement -- Epilogue: A note on majority-minority growth -- Appendix: Current voter ID policy snippets.
520 _a"With the increasing demands for changes in how we vote, the authors analyze the complications of race tied to these proposed policies through historical and contemporary challenges"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"Voting Rights under Fire is a timely addition to Praeger's series, Racism in American Institutions (RAI). With continued debate over existing and proposed voter ID laws and a host of other measures that seem designed to impede the ability of people of color to vote, racism as an institutional factor in American voting and politics is clear. The RAI series examines the ways in which racism has become a part of the fabric of many American institutions. For example, while the United States may have done away with overtly racist policies such as Jim Crow segregation, racism still affects many of America's established institutions from public schools to corporate offices. Similarly, schools may not be legally segregated, and yet many districts are not integrated. Voter ID laws have targeted perceived voter fraud, but there is no real fraud to speak of and hence these anti-voting measures serve to take us back to the period before the advent of the Voting Rights Act when people of color, especially black people, could not vote"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aSuffrage
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSuffrage.
650 0 _aMinorities
_xSuffrage
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aElection law
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aVoting
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aRacism
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRace relations.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
_xDiscrimination & Race Relations.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
_xSociology
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aAfrican Americans
_xSuffrage.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00799713
650 7 _aElection law.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00904300
650 7 _aMinorities
_xSuffrage.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01023247
650 7 _aRace relations.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01086509
650 7 _aRacism.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01086616
650 7 _aSuffrage.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01137187
650 7 _aVoting.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01169232
651 7 _aUnited States.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01204155
700 1 _aClemons, Michael L.,
_eauthor.
830 0 _aRacism in American institutions.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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