DEIA Resources on Voting Rights: Fall 2024 Update

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In 2022, TIE published the first iteration of our resource list on voting rights. Ahead of the 2024 election, we asked some of our former contributors for newer titles that they might recommend to readers looking to learn more or librarians seeking to curate collections for students and faculty. The following short update includes titles primarily published since 2022, as well as a few previously published volumes that still offer helpful insights.

  1. Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss (2023) by Juliet Hooker
  2. Civil War By Other Means: America’s Long & Unfinished Fight for Democracy (2022) by Jeremy Suri
  3. The Constant Two Plan: Reforming the Electoral College to Account for the National Popular Vote (2024) by Jay Wendland
  4. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (2023) by Heather Cox Richardson
  5. Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout, 5th ed. (2023) by Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber
  6. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (2020) by Heather Cox Richardson
  7. “Let Us Vote!”: Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment (2022) by Jennifer Frost
  8. Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990 (1994) edited by Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman
  9. A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy (2024) by Richard L. Hasen
  10. Structural Violence: The Makings of Settler Colonial Impunity (2024) by Elena Ruíz
  11. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (2023) by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
  12. Voting Rights in America: A Reference Handbook (2020) by Richard A. Glenn and Kyle L. Kreider
  13. Why We Vote (2024) by Owen Fiss

TIE is grateful to the following Choice reviewers who graciously contributed updated recommendations:

Dr. Biko Agozino's headshot

Dr. Biko Agozino

Professor, Sociology and Africana Studies, Virginia Tech
Twitter: @BikoZino

Dr. Derek Catsam

Dr. Derek Catsam

Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities, History, The University of Texas, Permian Basin
Twitter: @dcatafrica

Be sure to also check out the original DEIA resource list on voting rights.


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