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Losing Power - African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics (Paperback)
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Losing Power - African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics (Paperback)
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Tennessee has made tremendous strides in race relations since the
end of de jure segregation. African Americans are routinely elected
and appointed to state and local offices, the black vote has
tremendous sway in statewide elections, and legally explicit forms
of racial segregation have been outlawed. Yet the idea of
transforming Tennessee into a racially equitable state-a notion
that was central to the black freedom movement during the
antebellum and Jim Crow periods-remains elusive for many African
Americans in Tennessee, especially those living in the most
underresourced and economically distressed communities. Losing
Power investigates the complex relationship between racial
polarization, black political influence, and multiracial coalitions
in Tennessee in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Sekou
M. Franklin and Ray Block examine the divide in values,
preferences, and voting behaviors between blacks and whites,
contending that this racial divide is both one of the causes and
one of the consequences of black Tennesseans' recent loss of
political power. Tennessee has historically been considered more
politically moderate and less racially conservative than the states
of the Deep South. Yet in recent years and particularly since the
mid- 2000s, Republicans have cemented their influence in the state.
While Franklin and Block's analysis and methodology focus on state
elections, political institutions, and public policy, Franklin and
Block have also developed a conceptual framework for racial
politics that goes beyond voting patterns to include elite-level
discourse (issue framing), intrastate geographical divisions,
social movements, and pressure from interest groups.
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