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Mistaken identity : the Supreme Court and the politics of minority representation / Keith J. Bybee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400822775
  • 1400822777
  • 1400811163
  • 9781400811168
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mistaken identity.DDC classification:
  • 342.73/053 21
LOC classification:
  • KF4893 .B93 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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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