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.
| Other author/creator | Smith, Michael A., 1970- editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022] |
| Description | ix, 182 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction / Michael A. Smith and Chapman Rackaway -- Black voting rights 1865-2016 : 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. |
| Abstract | "Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "Since 2003, several US states have passed new laws that complicate the process of voter registration and voting. Framed as controls on voter fraud, the laws have spawned controversy in both the courts and public opinion, the latter falling along a sharp partisan divide. Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow? offers a scholarly analysis, not of the intent but rather the impact of these laws. Beginning with a historical overview of the expanding and contracting right to vote, particularly regarding its impact on African Americans, subsequent chapters use quantitative analysis to analyze the impact of identification requirement laws, proof-of-citizenship requirements, felony disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering. Before 2020, the impact of the laws leaned slightly negative but was mixed. More recent developments, however, point to a far more alarming implication--widespread belief in factually-baseless allegations of fraud, which undermines Americans' trust and faith in our constitutional democracy; these allegations reached a crescendo in 2021 as a violent mob seized the US Capitol. The book concludes with an afterword on the 2020 elections and their aftermath." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Much sound and fury, or the new Jim Crow? Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022] 9781438486840 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021040887 |
| ISBN | 9781438486833 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1438486839 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | KF4893 .M83 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |