If postmortems of the 2016 US presidential election tell us anything,
it's that many voters discriminate on the basis of race, which raises
an important question: in a society that outlaws racial discrimination
in employment, housing, and jury selections, should voters be
permitted to racially discriminate in selecting a candidate for public
office? In Whitelash, Terry Smith argues that such racialized
decision-making is unlawful and that remedies exist to deter this
reactionary behavior. Using evidence of race-based voting in the 2016
presidential election, Smith deploys legal analogies to demonstrate
how courts can decipher when groups of voters have been impermissibly
influenced by race, and impose appropriate remedies. This
groundbreaking work should be read by anyone interested in how the
legal system can re-direct American democracy away from the ongoing
electoral scourge that many feared 2016 portended.
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Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781108576512
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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