An incisive reflection on black electoral politics, disenfranchisement, and the lasting legacy of the civil rights movement--now with a brand-new essay on the Covid-19 pandemic, reparations, and the 2020 George Floyd protests.
Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney 's meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics.
In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates .