The Unintended Consequences Of Section 5 Of The Voting Rights Act
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The Unintended Consequences of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act by Edward Blum Pdf
The book highlight the real-world consequences of the changes to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Edward Blum draws on public records, press accounts, and extensive personal interviews with state and local officials to reveal the transformation of the VRA from a law protecting voting rights to a gerrymandering tool used to further the electoral prospects of incumbent politicians of all races.
Author : Charles S. Bullock,Keith Gåddie,Justin J. Wert Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press Page : 235 pages File Size : 49,9 Mb Release : 2016-04-12 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9780806154411
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act by Charles S. Bullock,Keith Gåddie,Justin J. Wert Pdf
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision—the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections—marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States, which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to the ballot. A detailed and timely history, The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act analyzes changing legislation and the future of voting rights in the United States. In tracing the development of the Voting Rights Act from its inception, Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert begin by exploring the political and legal aspects of the Jim Crow electoral regime. Detailing both the subsequent struggle to enact the law and its impact, they explain why the Voting Rights Act was necessary. The authors draw on court cases and election data to bring their discussion to the present with an examination of the 2006 revision and renewal of the act, and its role in shaping the southern political environment in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, when Barack Obama was chosen. Bullock, Gaddie, and Wert go on to closely evaluate the 2013 Shelby County decision, describing how the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court created an appellate environment that made the act ripe for a challenge. Rigorous in its scholarship and thoroughly readable, this book goes beyond history and analysis to provide compelling and much-needed insight into the ways voting rights legislation has shaped the United States. The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act illuminates the historical roots—and the human consequences—of a critical chapter in U.S. legal history.
The African American Electorate by Hanes Walton Jr,Sherman Puckett,Donald R Deskins Jr Pdf
This pioneering work brings together for the first time in a single reference work all of the extant, fugitive, and recently discovered registration data on African American voters from Colonial America to the present. It features election returns for African American presidential, senatorial, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates over time. Rich, insightful narrative explains the data and traces the history of the laws dealing with the enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans. Topics covered include: - The contributions of statistical pioneers including Monroe Work, W.E.B. DuBois and Ralph Bunche - African American organizations, like the NAACP and National Equal Rights League (NERL) - Pioneering African American officeholders, including the few before the Civil War - Four influxes of African American voters: Reconstruction (Southern African American men), the Fifteenth Amendment (African American men across the country), the Nineteenth Amendment (African American female voters in 1920 election), and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - The historical development of disenfranchisement in the South and the statistical impact of the tools of disenfranchisement: literacy clauses, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses. The African-American Electorate features more than 300 tables, 150 figures, and 50 maps, many of which have been created exclusively for this work using demographic, voter registration, election return, and racial precinct data that have never been collected and assembled for the public. An appendix includes popular and electoral voting data for African-American presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates, and a comprehensive bibliography indicates major topic areas and eras concerning the African-American electorate. The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans' voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America's political history.
Latinos and the Voting Rights Act by Henry Flores Pdf
This book explores congressional redistricting, the relevance of the Voting Rights Act, and the legal concept of racial purpose, focusing on the role race and racism played in the Texas redistricting process and the state’s 2011Voter Identification Law. The author makes a case for the use of mixed-methods research techniques in litigation research.
When the Letter Betrays the Spirit by Tyson King-Meadows Pdf
Drawing from government data, legislative history, Supreme Court decisions, survey results, and the 2006 reauthorization debate, When the Letter Betrays the Spirit examines how executive and judicial discretion facilitates violations of the Voting Rights act. Connecting Johnso...
An Introduction to the Expiring Provisions of the Voting Rights Act and Legal Issues Relating to Reauthorization by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf
Winner of the Alice Hanson Jones Prize, Economic History Association A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year The civil rights movement was also a struggle for economic justice, one that until now has not had its own history. Sharing the Prize demonstrates the significant material gains black southerners made—in improved job opportunities, quality of education, and health care—from the 1960s to the 1970s and beyond. Because black advances did not come at the expense of southern whites, Gavin Wright argues, the civil rights struggle was that rarest of social revolutions: one that benefits both sides. “Wright argues that government action spurred by the civil-rights movement corrected a misfiring market, generating large economic gains that private companies had been unable to seize on their own.” —The Economist “Written...with the care and imagination [Wright] displayed in his superb work on slavery and the southern economy since the Civil War, this excellent economic history offers the best empirical account to date of the effects the civil rights revolution had on southern labor markets, schools, and other important institutions...With much of the nation persuaded that a post-racial age has begun, Wright’s analytical history...takes on fresh urgency.” —Ira Katznelson, New York Review of Books
Assistant Professor of Political Science E J Fagan
Author : Assistant Professor of Political Science E J Fagan Publisher : Oxford University Press Page : 217 pages File Size : 47,9 Mb Release : 2024-06-12 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9780197759660
The Thinkers by Assistant Professor of Political Science E J Fagan Pdf
"Increasing, political parties have adopted not only different policies, but different sets of facts. Information Wars examines the role of partisan think tanks in creating these alternate realities. Partisan think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and Center for American Progress have become de facto formal party organizations, serving as close advisors and staff for the Republican and Democratic parties. It examines their impact on the policy process, polarization, and democracy. It also traces their development during American history, finding a close link between their activities and the growth of polarization in Congress. The book mixes historical analysis, qualitative case studies, and large-n quantitative analysis to examine the causes and consequences of the growth of partisan think tanks and their impact on American party politics"--
Voting Rights Act : the continuing need for section 5 : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, October 25, 2005. by Anonim Pdf
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Publisher : Unknown Page : 122 pages File Size : 44,9 Mb Release : 2013 Category : Election districts ISBN : MINN:31951D03647169Y
Voting Rights Act After the Supreme Court's Decision in Shelby County by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Pdf
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Publisher : Unknown Page : 516 pages File Size : 41,6 Mb Release : 2006 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : PSU:000058933350
