This trenchant little book will push you to think not just about the vote count but about who counts, too.” - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Anderson is a stinging polemicist her book rolls through a condensed history of voting rights and disenfranchisement, without getting bogged down in legislative minutiae. Her new book seems to have been written from a state of emergency, in an adrenaline-fueled sprint. “ One Person, No Vote reads like a speedy sequel of sorts to her previous book, the elegant and illuminating best-seller White Rage. Reviews About the Author Reviews Praise for One Person, No Vote

And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans. In a powerful new afterword, she examines the repercussions of the 2018 midterm elections. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. 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.įocusing 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. 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. 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.

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One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson