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CONTAINING THE RAINBOW COALITION

Political Consequences of Mass Racialized Incarceration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2020

Kerry L. Haynie
Kerry L. Haynie*
Affiliation:
Departments of Political Science and African & African American Studies, Duke University
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*Corresponding author: Kerry L. Haynie, Department of Political Science, Duke University, 279 Gross Hall, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708. E-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

The emergence of an African American and Latino-dominated coalition with the potential to reconfigure American government and politics at the national, state, and local levels is one of the most noteworthy developments in U.S. politics over the past two decades. Racialized mass incarceration and felon disenfranchisement are impediments to this coalition’s political power. Social scientists, legal scholars, and activists have long paid attention to how devices like poll taxes, English competency tests, voter intimidation, racial gerrymandering, and voter identification laws restrict participation and diluted the political influence of racial and ethnic minorities. This essay seeks to direct renewed scholarly attention to racialized mass incarceration and felon disenfranchisement as similar devices for suppressing and containing minority group political power.

Keywords

Mass incarceration and felon disenfranchisementAfrican American-Latino coalitionminority group power
Type
Guest Edited Dossier
Information
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , Spring 2019 , pp. 243 - 251
Copyright
Copyright © Hutchins Center for African and African American Research 2020 

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