Whitelash

Terry Smith has spent twenty-five years teaching at national law schools, most recently as a Distinguished Research Professor. His legal scholarship has been cited by federal courts, and he is the author of the book Barack Obama, Post-racialism, and the New Politics of Triangulation (2012).

• Introduction: the long night of déjà vu; 1. Electing Trump and breaching norms; 2. The exoneration of white voters; 3. White voters and the law of alternative facts; 4. The sirens of white nationalism; 5. Law as pretext; 6. Voting while white; 7. Holding candidates and parties accountable; 8. We the people: fashioning a legal remedy for voter whitelash; Conclusion: the globalization of whitelash.

'In Whitelash, Professor Terry Smith's clearly written and cogently argued book, he offers new and creative legal arguments of how to use the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause to protect voters from political candidates who use racism and racial stereotyping to advance their policies or sway a citizen's vote. He wants to make it illegal to do so.' Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr