Questions if voters would vote differently if it were illegal to discriminate in voting? How can courts enforce such a prohibition?
Terry Smith has spent twenty-five years teaching at national law schools, most recently as a Distinguished Research Professor. His legal scholarship has been cited by federal courts, and he is the author of the book Barack Obama, Post-racialism, and the New Politics of Triangulation (2012).
Introduction: the long night of déjà vu; 1. Electing Trump and breaching norms; 2. The exoneration of white voters; 3. White voters and the law of alternative facts; 4. The sirens of white nationalism; 5. Law as pretext; 6. Voting while white; 7. Holding candidates and parties accountable; 8. We the people: fashioning a legal remedy for voter whitelash; Conclusion: the globalization of whitelash.