Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108426725)

If postmortems of the 2016 US presidential election tell us anything, it's that many voters discriminate on the basis of race, which raises an important question: in a society that outlaws racial discrimination in employment, housing, and jury selections, should voters be permitted to racially discriminate in selecting a candidate for public office? In Whitelash, Terry Smith argues that such racialized decision-making is unlawful and that remedies exist to deter this reactionary behavior. Using evidence of race-based voting in the 2016 presidential election, Smith deploys legal analogies to demonstrate how courts can decipher when groups of voters have been impermissibly influenced by race, and impose appropriate remedies. This groundbreaking work should be read by anyone interested in how the legal system can re-direct American democracy away from the ongoing electoral scourge that many feared 2016 portended.

Author: Terry Smith
ISBN-10: 1108426727
ISBN-13: 9781108426725
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2020
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2020