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Informationen zum Autor Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is a co-author, with Richard A. Cloward, of The Breaking of the American Social Compact ; a co-author, with Lorraine C. Minnite and Margaret Groarke, of Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters ; and the author of The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism and Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?: The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate , all published by The New Press. She lives in New York City.Lorraine C. Minnite is an assistant professor of public policy at Rutgers University–Camden. She lives in New York City. Margaret Groarke is an associate professor in the government department at Manhattan College. She lives in New York City. Klappentext A controversial examination of how the US political system, despite Rock the Vote' rhetoric, works to suppress the vote - especially the votes of African Americans.' Zusammenfassung A controversial examination of how our political system, despite "Get Out the Vote" rhetoric, works to suppress the vote—especially the votes of African Americans Today, over forty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 demolished bars to voting for African Americans, the effort to prevent black people—as well as Latinos and the poor in general—from voting is experiencing a resurgence. A myriad of new tactics, some of which adopt the mantle of "election reform," has evolved to suppress the vote. In this sharply argued new book, three of America's leading experts on party politics and elections demonstrate that our political system is as focused on stopping people from voting as on getting Americans to go to the polls. In recent years, the Republican Party, the Bush administration, and the conservative movement have devoted a remarkable amount of effort to controlling election machinery (the scandal over federal prosecutors was in part over their refusal to gin up election-fraud cases). But Keeping Down the Black Vote shows that the effort to rig the system is as old as American political parties themselves, and race is at the heart of the game. ...
