Enforcing and Challenging the Voting Rights Act: Race, Voting, and Redistricting

ISBN-13: 9780815340669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 486 str.

Marsha J. Tyson Darling

Opis

The controversies of redistricting have challenged America's commitment to participatory democracy and America's ability to account for its historical record of voting and racial discrimination. This is the second volume in a three-volume set that brings together all the major legal cases and the most influential articles on the legal and historical arguments of this issue. Available as a set or as single volumes: volume 1 Race and Voting - the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (0-8153-4065-6); volume 2 The Legacy of the Voting Rights Act - Enforcement, Challenges and Barriers (0-8153-4066-4); and volume 3 Reactions to Redistricting - the Future of Race-based representation (0-8153-4057-2).

Spis treści

Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 4a Brief Submitted by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965; Chapter 8 Voting Rights Act Extension, House of Representatives, 94 th Congress, 1 st Session, Report No. 94–196; Chapter 9 Alternative Voting Systems as Remedies for Unlawful At-Large Systems; Chapter 10 The 1982 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act, Thomas M. Boyd, Stephen J. Markman; Chapter 11 The Constitutional Imperative of Proportional Representation; Chapter 12 Geometry and Geography; Chapter 13 The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons; Chapter 14 The Myth of Colorblindness, David A. Strauss; Chapter 15 Book Review, Pamela S. Karlan, Peyton McCrary; Chapter 16 Keeping the Courts Honest:, Peyton McCrary, J. Gerald Hebert;

O autorze

Marsha Darling holds a doctorate of law. She has taught history at Georgetown University and is currently director of the African American Studies Department at Adelphi University in New York.