Colorblind Injustice: Monority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction - Couverture souple

Kousser, J. Morgan

 
9780807847381: Colorblind Injustice: Monority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction
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ISBN 10 : 0807847380 ISBN 13 : 9780807847381
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Synopsis

Challenging recent trends both in historical scholarship and in Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, J. Morgan Kousser criticizes the Court's "postmodern equal protection" and demonstrates that legislative and judicial history still matter for public policy.
Offering an original interpretation of the failure of the First Reconstruction (after the Civil War) by comparing it with the relative success of the Second (after World War II), Kousser argues that institutions and institutional rules--not customs, ideas, attitudes, culture, or individual behavior--have been the primary forces shaping American race relations throughout the country's history. Using detailed case studies of redistricting decisions and the tailoring of electoral laws from Los Angeles to the Deep South, he documents how such rules were designed to discriminate against African Americans and Latinos.
Kousser contends that far from being colorblind, Shaw v. Reno (1993) and subsequent "racial gerrymandering" decisions of the Supreme Court are intensely color-conscious. Far from being conservative, he argues, the five majority justices and their academic supporters are unreconstructed radicals who twist history and ignore current realities. A more balanced view of that history, he insists, dictates a reversal of Shaw and a return to the promise of both Reconstructions.

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À propos de l?auteur

J. Morgan Kousser is professor of history and social science at the California Institute of Technology and author of The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910. He has served as an expert witness in nineteen federal voting rights cases.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807847380
ISBN 13 
9780807847381
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
608
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780807824313: Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction

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ISBN 10 :  0807824313 ISBN 13 :  9780807824313
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 1999
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