Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters

by Frances Fox Piven, Lorraine C. Minnite, Margaret Groarke

Book Overview

A controversial examination of how our political system, despite "Get Out the Vote" rhetoric, works to suppress the vote--especially the votes of African Americans

Today, over forty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 demolished bars to voting for African Americans, the effort to prevent black people--as well as Latinos and the poor in general--from voting is experiencing a resurgence. A myriad of new tactics, some of which adopt the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595583548
• ISBN13: 9781595583543
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"