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The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans Right to Vote (A Century Foundation Book)
The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing curr...more
Hardcover, 216 pages
Published
August 21st 2012
by Cornell University Press
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Wang gives us both a history of voter suppression tactics in the USA since the end of Reconstruction, and a strong case for the illegitimacy of voter suppression as a means of partisan competition.
Some will remember at least some key facts about the use of poll taxes and literacy tests to prevent African-Americans from voting in the post-Reconstruction era. Even those readers may be startled at the extent of the suppression and the strength of its effects, as well as parallel efforts in northern...more
Some will remember at least some key facts about the use of poll taxes and literacy tests to prevent African-Americans from voting in the post-Reconstruction era. Even those readers may be startled at the extent of the suppression and the strength of its effects, as well as parallel efforts in northern...more
Sep 04, 2012
Rock Angel
marked it as i-aint-sure
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Ref: a black man's look at Obama's first term, pre-election 2012
Author proposed his view of Obama's "twice as good, half as black" survivor tactic in the white house. Coates, an African American, is able to provide a diff take on Obama's presidency. At times too scholarly in the first 2/3, it is a healthy counter-balance to most views in the main stream media:
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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a...
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(This article is not related to the book.)
Ref: a black man's look at Obama's first term, pre-election 2012
Author proposed his view of Obama's "twice as good, half as black" survivor tactic in the white house. Coates, an African American, is able to provide a diff take on Obama's presidency. At times too scholarly in the first 2/3, it is a healthy counter-balance to most views in the main stream media:
http://www....more
On one hand this was a really depressing history of voter suppression in the United States; on the other, there is a lot of hope here as well. Wang makes it abundantly clear that all parties have had a hand in shrinking the voting pool throughout this country's history, so this is not aimed at any one party in particular (though it is clear which party is leading that charge right now). Also, she includes steps that anyone can take to reverse that trend, and why it is in BOTH party's interests t...more
You can read my review on New Europe http://www.neurope.eu/article/politic...
A short but comprehensive history of how both Republicans and Democrats have tried to undermine the right to vote at different times in American history. In the 19th century both Democrats and Republicans engaged in voter suppression policies, Democrats in the South, Republicans in the North. Today it is the Republican Party that is most actively engaged in voter suppression policies. Read more at NYJB
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