One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol

Description: One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling history of voter suppression in America, from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the present-day rise of legislated voter discrimination, and the forces that are fighting back.In her New York Times bestselling White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically aimed at impeding black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the democratic vote since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which hindered politicians in racist counties and states from diminishing the electoral strength of African Americans and Latinos at the polls. While the VRA has required vigilant safeguarding against the efforts of the GOP, its blanket protections remained in effect until 2013, when the Shelby County Supreme Court decision effectively stripped it, allowing states, counties, and municipalities with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.Focusing on the aftermath of the Shelby ruling, Anderson follows an astonishing series of undemocratic electoral actions fueled by Republican-sponsored hysteria about massive voter fraud. With her combination of gripping storytelling and enlightening description she explains how each method of voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans.The story of government-dictated racial discrimination is unfolding before our very eyes, as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. As the nation gears up for the 2018 mid-term elections, One Person, No Vote, and its incredible history of affronts to the democratic process, carries the fierce urgency of now. Author Biography Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of White Rage, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bourgeois Radicals, and Eyes Off the Prize. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Review An extraordinarily timely and urgent call to confront the legacy of structural racism bequeathed by white anger and resentment, and to show its continuing threat to the promise of American democracy. -- Editors Choice * New York Times Book Review on WHITE RAGE *A sobering primer on the myriad ways African American resilience and triumph over enslavement, Jim Crow and intolerance have been relentlessly defied by the very institutions entrusted to uphold our democracy. * Washington Post on WHITE RAGE *Lends perspective and insight for those of us who are willing to confront, study and learn from the present situation in this country. * St. Louis Dispatch on WHITE RAGE *Some books are great, some books are essential. White Rage is the latter. -- Ed Yong * The Millions on WHITE RAGE * Promotional From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling history of voter suppression in America, from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the present-day rise of legislated voter discrimination, and the forces that are fighting back. Review Quote "This whiplash-inducing chronicle of how a nation that just a few short years ago elected its first black president now finds itself in the throes of a deceitful and craven effort to rip this most essential of American rights from millions of its citizens." -- Starred Review, Booklist "A ripped-from-the-headlines book . . . Anderson is a highly praised academic who has mastered the art of gathering information and writing for a general readership, and her latest book could not be more timely." -- Kirkus "In White Rage , a New York Times best seller that won the National Book Critics Circle Award,Emory professor Anderson chronicled efforts since 1865 to block the advancement of African Americans. Here she concentrates on efforts to curtail the African American vote since the 2013 Shelby ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Anderson considers both consequences--e.g., photo ID requirements, poll closures--and means of redress." -- Library Journal, Barbaras Nonfiction Picks for September 2018 "Well-timed . . . In a slim volume, Anderson details the outrages of Republican efforts to target largely minority voters and to limit their influence in elections. . . . Blood-boiling stories like these come rapid-fire in Andersons narrative, which is also peppered with a brief history of voter suppression dating back to Reconstruction." -- Washington Monthly "Reading Carol Andersons One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy makes it clear that [voter suppression] is alive and well. With exhaustive research and documentation and compelling narrative style, Anderson conveys how the overtly racist poll taxes, literacy tests, targeted violence and intimidation that evolved after Reconstruction to prevent African-Americans and other minorities from voting have been supplanted by ostensibly colorblind efforts to fight voter fraud and game the electoral system." -- Asheville Citizen Times "Most of us are well aware that there is something fundamentally broken about the way we vote--but not why. In One Person No Vote , Carol Anderson offers up a timely, powerfully written, and comprehensive indictment of the (relatively recent) history of brutal race-based vote suppression, and its many modern iterations--from voter ID requirements and voter purges, to fraudulent election fraud commissions and stolen elections. Along the way Anderson traces the rise and fall of the landmark Voting Rights Act and how the Supreme Court continues to blinker itself to the ways in which American elections are neither free nor fair, and how the dignity of states and white voters continues to be privileged above the franchise itself. A must-read for anyone wondering why voting is the most important issue we continue to misapprehend." -- Dahlia Lithwick, Chief Legal Correspondent for SLATE and host of the Amicus podcast "As Carol Anderson makes clear in One Person, No Vote , the right to vote is under even greater assault today. For the sake of those who fought and died for it, it is up to all of us to insist that this most basic American right be protected. Reading this well-crafted book will arm you with the facts." -- Senator Dick Durbin, from the Foreword "Carol Anderson is one of our most incisive and cogent thinkers regarding historys fingerprints on current affairs. With One Person, No Vote she has produced a crucial examination of a critical issue: voter suppression. At a time when democracy is under siege and the worst elements of the racial past are being resurrected we can scarcely afford to avert our eyes from our most pressing challenges. Carol Anderson looks at these issues directly, unflinchingly, and offers us an invaluable insight regarding where we are, how we got here, and how we might navigate our way to safer shores." -- Jelani Cobb, author of THE SUBSTANCE OF HOPE "An extraordinarily timely and urgent call to confront the legacy of structural racism bequeathed by white anger and resentment, and to show its continuing threat to the promise of American democracy." -- Editors Choice, New York Times Book Review on WHITE RAGE "A sobering primer on the myriad ways African American resilience and triumph over enslavement, Jim Crow and intolerance have been relentlessly defied by the very institutions entrusted to uphold our democracy." -- Washington Post on WHITE RAGE "Some books are great, some books are essential. White Rage is the latter." -- Ed Yong, The Millions on WHITE RAGE "Lends perspective and insight for those of us who are willing to confront, study and learn from the present situation in this country." -- St. Louis Dispatch on WHITE RAGE Promotional "Headline" From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage , the startling history of voter suppression in America, from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the present-day rise of legislated voter discrimination, and the forces that are fighting back. Feature New York Times bestselling author: Carol Andersons White Rage has 36,000 copies in print. Description for Library In White Rage, a New York Times best seller that won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Emory professor Anderson chronicled efforts since 1865 to block the advancement of African Americans. Here she concentrates on efforts to curtail the African American vote since the 2013 Shelby ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Anderson considers both consequences-e.g., photo ID requirements-and means of redress. Details ISBN1635571375 Author Dick Durbin ISBN-10 1635571375 ISBN-13 9781635571370 Format Hardcover Pages 288 Media Book Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-12-13 Subtitle How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Country of Publication United States DEWEY 324.6208996073 Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USA Place of Publication New York Short Title One Person, No Vote Language English UK Release Date 2018-12-13 NZ Release Date 2018-12-13 US Release Date 2018-12-13 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA Audience General AU Release Date 2018-09-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137282252;

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