Say it louder! : black voters, white narratives, and saving our democracy / Tiffany D. Cross ; [foreword by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross, Tiffany D., 1979- author.

Contributor:

Dyson, Michael Eric, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voting--Corrupt practices--United States.

Voting.

African Americans.

Voting registers--United States.

Voting registers.

Racism--Political aspects--United States.

Racism.

Racism--Political aspects.

Corruption.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 240 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Summary:

Black voters were critical to the Democrats' 2018 blue wave. In fact, 90 percent of Black voters supported Democratic House candidates, compared to just 53 percent of all voters. Despite media narratives, this was not a fluke. Throughout U.S. history, Black people have played a crucial role in the shaping of the American experiment. Yet still, this powerful voting bloc is often dismissed as some "amorphous" deviation, argues Tiffany Cross. Say It Louder! is her explosive examination of how America's composition was designed to exclude Black voters, but paradoxically would likely cease to exist without them. With multiple tentacles stretching into the cable news echo chamber, campaign leadership, and Black voter data, Cross creates a wrinkle in time with a reflective look at the timeless efforts endlessly attempting to deny people of color the right to vote--a basic tenet of American democracy. And yet as the demographics of the country are changing, so too is the electoral power construct--by evolution and by force, Cross declares. Grounded in the most-up-to-date research, Say It Louder! is a vital tool for a wide swath of constituencies."--Amazon.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One How I Got Here

1. For Colored Girls Who Consider Journalism When Twitter Is Not Enough

2. I'm Beat!

3. Ring the Alarm!

pt. Two How WE Got Here

4. The Trump Card

5. The Red Summer

6. White Economic Anxiety in West Virginia Black Economic Anxiety in Michigan

7. Georgia Outkasts

8. Ohio and the Purge

9. Florida Man

10. You Down with GOP?

11. Silencing Black Women

12. Kamala's Campaign

pt. Three Where We Need to Go

13. If You Don't Vote, You Don't Count?

14. Fade to Black.

ISBN:

9780062976772

006297677X

9780062976765

0062976761

OCLC:

1153027541