{"id":540,"date":"2012-03-30T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T09:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:51:21","slug":"us-elections-and-african-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2012\/03\/30\/us-elections-and-african-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"US Elections and African Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NAACP has declared that certain\u00a0US states have introduced practices which are restricting black voting rights in the report Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naacp.org\/pages\/defending-democracy\">http:\/\/www.naacp.org\/pages\/defending-democracy<\/a><br \/>\nSee more about their campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisismyvote.org\/\">http:\/\/www.thisismyvote.org\/<\/a> which is encouraging black political participation during the elections. The resources section has a collection of articles covering race and voting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisismyvote.org\/pages\/educational-resources\">http:\/\/www.thisismyvote.org\/pages\/educational-resources<\/a><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2011\/dec\/06\/naacp-voting-rights-black-hispanic\">Guardian has a data blog <\/a>based on this which gives results state by state. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2011\/dec\/06\/naacp-voting-rights-black-hispanic\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2011\/dec\/06\/naacp-voting-rights-black-hispanic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NAACP has declared that certain\u00a0US states have introduced practices which are restricting black voting rights in the report Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America. http:\/\/www.naacp.org\/pages\/defending-democracy See more about their campaign http:\/\/www.thisismyvote.org\/ which is encouraging black political participation during the elections. The resources section has a collection of articles covering race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[41,242,75,95],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}