Whitelash : unmasking White grievance at the ballot box

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Whitelash : unmasking White grievance at the ballot box

Title remainder

unmasking White grievance at the ballot box

Statement of responsibility

Terry Smith

Creator

• Smith, Terry, 1964-

Author

• Smith, Terry, 1964-

Subject

• Politics and government
• Presidents -- Election
• Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
• Präsidentenwahl
• Race discrimination -- Law and legislation
• Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Race relations -- Political aspects
• Election law -- Political aspects -- United States
• Since 2016
• USA
• USA, President
• United States
• United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
• United States -- Race relations | Political aspects
• Wahlrecht
• Rassendiskriminierung
• Ethnische Beziehungen

Language

eng

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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non fiction

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bibliography