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TY - CHAP
T1 - Racial Policy Under Trump
AU - Johnson, Richard
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This chapter examines the sharpest areas of contrast between Donald Trump and Barack Obama on racial policy. The first section looks at President Trump’s redirection of the Justice Department’s agenda by appointing personnel who have long been opponents of the department’s traditional initiatives. The second section charts the policy shifts undertaken by the Trump administration on voting rights. These federal, executive-led policy changes will be situated within the wider context of state-level efforts to alter the franchise and the retreat of the federal courts from providing protection to ethnic minority voters. The final section examines the Trump administration’s sharp turn on matters of policing and criminal justice. Civil rights activists have seen a cautiously supportive administration led by the first African American president be replaced by an administration which has defined itself politically against them.
AB - This chapter examines the sharpest areas of contrast between Donald Trump and Barack Obama on racial policy. The first section looks at President Trump’s redirection of the Justice Department’s agenda by appointing personnel who have long been opponents of the department’s traditional initiatives. The second section charts the policy shifts undertaken by the Trump administration on voting rights. These federal, executive-led policy changes will be situated within the wider context of state-level efforts to alter the franchise and the retreat of the federal courts from providing protection to ethnic minority voters. The final section examines the Trump administration’s sharp turn on matters of policing and criminal justice. Civil rights activists have seen a cautiously supportive administration led by the first African American president be replaced by an administration which has defined itself politically against them.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-96325-9_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-96325-9_6
M3 - Chapter
SN - 3319963244
SN - 9783319963242
T3 - The Evolving American Presidency
SP - 111
EP - 135
BT - The Trump Presidency
A2 - Oliva, Mara
A2 - Shanahan, Mark
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -