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Book SynopsisRace and Partisanship in California Redistricting: From the 1965 Voting Rights Act to Present aims to study redistricting and its evolution in California since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It poses the question: what is the interactive play of race and partisanship in redefining the meaning of political representation through redistricting? Unlike other studies of redistricting, it focuses not on the south but on the west, not on white versus black but on the difficulties of diversity. Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting tells the story of redistricting in California, which has now become one of the bluest states and is considered a harbinger of political trends in the United States. Ultimately, this is a book that looks forward by looking back at the tug-and-pull of redistricting efforts aimed at ensuring greater equality in a racially diverse democracy. What is the role played by race and partisanship in the voting rights revolution? How does that vary f
Trade Review“If you want to understand the tangled connections between law and politics, resistance and reform, and above all, race and partisanship, in the last 50 years of politics in the American states, start here. Appropriate for students and interested lay readers, as well as for scholars of redistricting and the politics of race, this book is a key to understanding how politics has worked in the nation’s largest state in the recent past and how it might work throughout the nation in the future.” -- Morgan Kousser, Caltech
Table of ContentsChapter 1: “One Person, One Vote”: How Minorities Benefitted from the End of Malapportionment Chapter 2: Gridlock over one (Latino) seat in 1971 Chapter 3: The Battle for the Latino vote and the Burton Plan of 1981 Chapter 4:Race and Redistricting in LA County: Garza v. County of Los Angeles Chapter 5: Strategic Gridlock of 1991: Republicans Bet on the Judiciary Chapter 6: The status quo gerrymander of 2001: MALDEF sues the Democrats Chapter 7: The California Civil Rights Act of 2001: Latinos end at-large districts Chapter 8: Tenth Time is a Charm: The California Redistricting Commission (CRC) Chapter 9: Conjoined Polarization in California: how the correlation between race and partisanship changed redistricting
