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Voting Hopes or Fears?
White Voters, Black Candidates, and Racial Politics in America
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When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, he explained that it flowed from "a clear and simple wrong." But a generation later, whites still remain resistant to the election of blacks to public office. That widespread resistance, Keith Reeves illustrates, can be
explained in large part by election campaign appeals to whites' racial fears and sentiments. Based on empirical research examining white voters' attitudes towards black candidates and racial framing of campaign news coverage, Voting Hopes or Fears? explosively documents that racial discrimination
against black candidates is contemporary, specific, and identifiable. Reeves concludes by outlining possible remedies such as modified at-large voting systems and by defending the practice of race-conscious legislative districting, now under attack by the Supreme Court.
Marshaling startling evidence of voting discrimination against black candidates on account of race, and featuring a Foreword by The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., Chief Justice Emeritus of the US Court of Appeals, Voting Hopes or Fears? will be mandatory reading for political and social
scientists, scholars of racism and African-American Studies, civil rights litigators, journalists, black lawmakers and office-seekers, and general readers interested in the subject of race and politics in American society.
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Subject categories
- Academic > Public Affairs > Public Affairs > United States > Political rights. Practical politics > Electoral system
- Academic > Political Science > Political institutions and public administration (United States) > Capital. Public buildings. Government property. Government purchasing > Political rights. Practical politics > Electoral system
- Academic > Public Affairs > Political institutions and public administration > General. Comparative government > Political rights. Political participation
- Science > Life Sciences
- Political Science > Practical Politics
- Political Science > Elections
- Law > Human Rights
- Social Science > African-American Studies
- Social Science > Discrimination & Race Relations
ISBNs
019535639X
9780195101614
9780195356397
