Racial Innocence

Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality

Author: Tanya Kateri Hernandez
ISBN: 9780807020135

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 de

Publisher: Beacon Press
Publish Date: 2022

Subjects: Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Political Science / Civil Rights

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: African-American/Black Studies)