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Mississippi, the Court, and the Voting Rights Rollback

Six books explaining how Supreme Court doctrine, Reconstruction's unfinished work, and state-level partisan strategy now converge on the maps that decide Southern representation.

6 booksMay 14, 2026

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1. The Shadow Docket
Stephen Vladeck
Vladeck explains how the Supreme Court’s opaque procedures and rulings are remaking voting-rights enforcement, directly...
Shelf signal: Courts & the Judiciary
2. Justice on the Brink
Linda Greenhouse
Greenhouse traces the Court’s political transformation and helps readers understand how recent doctrinal shifts enable...
Shelf signal: Courts & the Judiciary
3. The Second Founding
Eric Foner
Foner provides Reconstruction and constitutional history needed to situate how voting rights and representation in the...
Shelf signal: Civil War Era
4. Injustices
Ian Millhiser, Joe Barrett
Millhiser offers a critical history of the Supreme Court’s role in entrenching inequality, contextualizing why judicial...
Shelf signal: Courts & the Judiciary
5. Sundown Towns
James W. Loewen
Loewen’s examination of sundown towns and regional racial practices supplies historical background on Mississippi’s...
Shelf signal: African American U.S. History for Teens
6. Ballot Battles
Edward Foley, Edward B. Foley
Foley’s Ballot Battles explains the procedural and legal contests over maps and elections that make state-level...
Shelf signal: U.S. History
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