1st Edition
Enforcing and Challenging the Voting Rights Act Race, Voting, and Redistricting
Edited By Marsha Darling
Copyright 2002
514 Pages
by
Routledge
514 Pages
by
Routledge
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Political redistricting is one of the most controversial issues in contemporary American society. The practice of shaping voting districts to enhance the political representation of minorities at all levels of government emerged as a legal remedy for redressing the systematic historical exclusion of minority political representation. It continues to have vocal and active defenders and detractors... Read more
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;
Biography
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.
