Race and redistricting in the 1990s /
A portrait of how the 1990's round of redistricting treated the racial and linguistic minorities that had been given special protections by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, primarily African-Americans, but also Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and those of Spanish heritage. Throughout the volum...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Agathon Press,
©1998.
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Colección: | Agathon series on representation ;
v. 5. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | A portrait of how the 1990's round of redistricting treated the racial and linguistic minorities that had been given special protections by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, primarily African-Americans, but also Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and those of Spanish heritage. Throughout the volume, the primary focus is on the practical politics of redistricting and its consequences for racial representation. Almost all the authors have been directly involved in the 1990's redistricting process either as a legislator, a member of the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department, a member of a. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 405 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-384) and index. |
ISBN: | 0875862659 9780875862651 9786610655991 6610655995 1280655992 9781280655999 |