One Person, No Vote

One Person, No Vote

by Carol Anderson
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 11/09/2018

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As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy


Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction

Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction

An NPR Politics Podcast Book Club Choice

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by:


Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * New York Public Library


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.**


In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded 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 vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.


Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how 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.

ISBN:
9781635571387
9781635571387
Category:
Elections & referenda
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
11-09-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Carol Anderson

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.

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