One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Carol Anderson

Sep 2018 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA

About this ebook

As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy

Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
An NPR Politics Podcast Book Club Choice
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by:
Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * New York Public Library

From the award-winning, 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 detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans.

Ratings and reviews

1-star for this trash showing up when I shop for books. Go push your nutter Soviet-Harvard philosophies on the weak, susceptible minds of others. Wait, don't do that either.

this book exposes the slow decline of democracy. voter repression is as american as apple pie. it was first practiced by the democratic party in the 19th century, and has been reintroduced and perfected by the republican party in the 21st century. Carol Anderson has done an excellent job of exposing the racism that is at the heart of the many changes to the rules and regulations that the republican party have advanced recently. A MUST READ!!!

Voter suppressions about as relevent and intergrated in politics as voter fraud. Miminimal.

About the author

Carol Anderson, PhD, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of White Rage, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bourgeois Radicals, and Eyes off the Prize. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.