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Title:

Much sound and fury, or the new Jim Crow? : the twenty-first century's restrictive new voting laws and their impact / edited by Michael A. Smith.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

ix, 182 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

African Americans--History.--History.
African Americans--History.--History.
African Americans--History.--Mississippi--History.
Suffrage--United States--History.--History.
Voter registration--United States--History.
Voter suppression--United States--History.
Gerrymandering--United States--History.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Suffrage.
Gerrymandering.
Suffrage--U.S. states.
Voter registration.
Voter suppression.
Mississippi.
United States.
History.

Other Authors:

Smith, Michael A., 1970- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael A. Smith and Chapman Rackaway -- Black voting rights 1865-2020 : two reconstructions and four Mississippi plans / Russell Brooker -- The impact of voter ID laws on county turnout in the 2016 Presidential Election / Ryan E. Voris -- Backlash! Do restrictive voting laws mobilize their opponents? / Michael A. Smith -- Using cross sectional, time series, and border analysis to identify the impact of restrictive voting laws / Bekah Selby and Michael A. Smith -- Contemporary effects of felony disenfranchisement upon election turnout and partisan vote share / Linda M. Trautman and Bekah Selby -- Using mathematics to understand how gerrymandering affects partisan voting power / Brian Hollenbeck and Deborah G. Hann -- Civil rights groups respond / Kevin Anderson -- Conclusion / Michael A. Smith and Chapman Rackaway -- Afterword on the 2020 Election / Michael A. Smith.

Summary:

"Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1438486839
9781438486833

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1273424325

LCCN:

2021040887

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)