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Title Much sound and fury, or the new Jim Crow? : the twenty-first century's restrictive new voting laws and their impact / edited by Michael A. Smith
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022]
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 319 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Michael A. Smith and Chapman Rackaway -- Black voting rights 1865-2020 : two reconstructions and four Mississippi plans / Russell Brooker -- The impact of voter ID laws on county turnout in the 2016 Presidential Election / Ryan E. Voris -- Backlash! Do restrictive voting laws mobilize their opponents? / Michael A. Smith -- Using cross sectional, time series, and border analysis to identify the impact of restrictive voting laws / Bekah Selby and Michael A. Smith -- Contemporary effects of felony disenfranchisement upon election turnout and partisan vote share / Linda M. Trautman and Bekah Selby -- Using mathematics to understand how gerrymandering affects partisan voting power / Brian Hollenbeck and Deborah G. Hann -- Civil rights groups respond / Kevin Anderson -- Conclusion / Michael A. Smith and Chapman Rackaway -- Afterword on the 2020 Election / Michael A. Smith
Summary "Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 7, 2022)
Subject African Americans -- Suffrage -- History
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History
African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi -- History
Suffrage -- United States -- States -- History
Voter registration -- United States -- History
Voter suppression -- United States -- History
Gerrymandering -- United States -- History
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Suffrage
Gerrymandering
Suffrage -- U.S. states
Voter registration
Voter suppression
Mississippi
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Michael A., 1970- editor.
LC no. 2021040888
ISBN 9781438486840
1438486847