Mistaken identity : the Supreme Court and the politics of minority representation / Keith J. Bybee.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781400822775
- 1400822777
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- United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
- �Etats-Unis. Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Voting Rights Act of 1965 (United States)
- Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States
- Proportional representation -- United States
- Representative government and representation -- United States
- Election districts -- United States
- Political questions and judicial power -- United States
- Minorit�es -- Suffrage -- �Etats-Unis
- Repr�esentation proportionnelle -- �Etats-Unis
- Gouvernement repr�esentatif -- �Etats-Unis
- Circonscriptions �electorales -- �Etats-Unis
- Politique et pouvoir judiciaire -- �Etats-Unis
- LAW -- Constitutional
- LAW -- Public
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- Legislative Branch
- Election districts
- Minorities -- Suffrage
- Political questions and judicial power
- Proportional representation
- Representative government and representation
- United States
- Minorit�es -- Droit de vote -- Etats-Unis
- Repr�esentation proportionnelle -- Etats-Unis
- Circonscriptions �electorales -- Etats-Unis
- Gouvernement repr�esentatif -- Etats-Unis
- Politique et pouvoir judiciaire -- Etats-Unis
- Jura Jura
- 342.73/053 21
- KF4893 .B93 1998eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.
Chapter 1 The Voting Rights Act and the Struggle for Meaningful Political Membership 12 -- Chapter 2 The Supreme Court and Representation: Building an Analytical Framework 30 -- Chapter 3 Sound and Fury: Identifying the Role of Political Identity in the Public Debate 51 -- Chapter 4 The Early Cases 70 -- Chapter 5 The Later Cases: The Polarization of Judicial Debate 98 -- Chapter 6 The Possibilities of Legislative Learning 145.
Print version record.
Is it ever legitimate to redraw electoral districts on the basis of race? In its long struggle with this question, the U.S. Supreme Court has treated race-conscious redistricting either as a requirement of political fairness or as an exercise in corrosive racial quotas. Cutting through these contradictory positions, Keith Bybee examines the theoretical foundations of the Court's decisions and the ideological controversy those decisions have engendered. He uncovers erroneous assumptions about political identity on both sides of the debate and formulates new terms on which minority representati.
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