MC Professor Publishes New Book
Joseph H. Smith
Issue date: 3/11/09 Section: News
Dr. Margaret Groarke, Assistant Professor of the Government Department and Director of the Peace Studies Program, has published her first book, Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters, with co-authors Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine C. Minnite.
The book covers the interesting and timely subject of how the black and also immigrant vote has been suppressed and not mobilized by the major political parties to enter the political arena as voters. The scope of the book begins with the extension of suffrage to black voters after the Civil War, but mainly focuses on the Civil Rights era towards the present. The 281 page book, a work in progress since the summer of 2007, was published this year by the New Press based in New York City. It was released on Feb.10th to deservedly favorable reviews.
Groarke's doctorate focused on efforts to ease voting restrictions since the 1970's. The outcome of long campaigning is the National Voter Registration Act (also known as the Motor Voter Act), which was signed into law by President Clinton in 1993. The law requires states to offer voter registration applications in numerous places, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, from where the popular name of the act takes its name, welfare offices and various other government offices. This piece of legislation is covered in depth throughout the book.
Lorraine Minnite is a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and is currently working on a book which addresses the subject of voter fraud.
Frances Fox Piven is the Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate Center. Dr. Piven has authored numerous books on subjects of this and a similar nature.
Groarke earned her A.B. degree from Harvard University in Social Studies and her doctorate from the City University of New York where she worked under the guidance of Dr. Piven, her friend and mentor.
The book covers the interesting and timely subject of how the black and also immigrant vote has been suppressed and not mobilized by the major political parties to enter the political arena as voters. The scope of the book begins with the extension of suffrage to black voters after the Civil War, but mainly focuses on the Civil Rights era towards the present. The 281 page book, a work in progress since the summer of 2007, was published this year by the New Press based in New York City. It was released on Feb.10th to deservedly favorable reviews.
Groarke's doctorate focused on efforts to ease voting restrictions since the 1970's. The outcome of long campaigning is the National Voter Registration Act (also known as the Motor Voter Act), which was signed into law by President Clinton in 1993. The law requires states to offer voter registration applications in numerous places, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, from where the popular name of the act takes its name, welfare offices and various other government offices. This piece of legislation is covered in depth throughout the book.
Lorraine Minnite is a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and is currently working on a book which addresses the subject of voter fraud.
Frances Fox Piven is the Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate Center. Dr. Piven has authored numerous books on subjects of this and a similar nature.
Groarke earned her A.B. degree from Harvard University in Social Studies and her doctorate from the City University of New York where she worked under the guidance of Dr. Piven, her friend and mentor.