“The poll tax, in this election, is time. The poll tax, in this election, is potentially exposing yourself to COVID-19. The poll tax, in this election, is forgoing traditional methods of voting by mail because you are afraid your rights will be trampled. Now we anxiously await a future that will either be filled with more misogynist anti-Black violence, or a return to the value of difference as the very fabric of our democracy.”
Author: Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández is a professor at Emory and Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard. She received her doctorate degree from Cornell University in English, with a graduate minor in Latina/o Studies in 2004. She is the author "Unspeakable Violence: Narratives of Citizenship Mourning and Loss in Chicana/o and U.S. Mexico National Imaginaries."
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