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Voting Hopes or Fears?: White Voters, Black Candidates, and Racial Politics in America (Updated Edition) by Keith Reeves Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-19-510162-6 / 0195101626 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-510162-1 / 9780195101621 When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, he explained that it flowed from "a clear and simple wrong." But a generation later, whites still remain resistant to the election of blacks to public office. That widespread resistance, Keith Reeves illustrates, can be explained in |