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Whitelash : unmasking White grievance at the ballot box / Terry Smith

Author
Smith, Terry, 1964-
Additional Titles
Unmasking White grievance at the ballot box
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Copyright Date
©2020
Physical Description
xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Introduction: The Long Night of Deja Vu -- Electing Trump and Breaching Norms -- The Exoneration of White Voters -- White Voters and the Law of Alternative Facts -- The Sirens of White Nationalism -- Law as Pretext -- Voting While White -- Holding Candidates and Parties Accountable -- We the People: Fashioning a Legal Remedy for Voter Whitelash -- Conclusion : The Globalization of Whitelash.
Summary
"Politicians often extoll the common sense of running government like a business. Indeed, business acumen was arguably the principal qualification of then-candidate Donald Trump to become president of the United States. Likening government to a business, however, invites another analogy: voters as employers. Employers are constrained by practical and legal considerations in choosing employees. For example, it's almost impossible to imagine a board of directors selecting Donald Trump as its CEO after the revelation of the Access Hollywood tape on which he boasted of grabbing women by their genitalia without their consent. The reputational and legal exposure for the business would be too great. Yet American voters elected Trump as the nation's CEO"--
"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." --
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ISBN
9781108426725 (hardcover)
1108426727 (hardcover)
9781108445467 (paperback)
1108445462 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
James F. Robb Fund
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