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Mistaken identity : the Supreme Court and the politics of minority representation /
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 contrad...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400822775 1400822777 1400811163 9781400811168 9786612753589 6612753587 1282753584 9781282753587 9780691017297 0691017298 |