Description
Book SynopsisContributes to various enhancements of voting rights and minority representation.
Trade ReviewVoting Rights and Minority Representation provides an invaluable description of the status of majority-minority districts and consequently minority representation in the United States...The book supplements and improves upon the mounting evidence...for the type of institutional change that truly encourages equality... -- Corina S. Schulze, University of New Orleans * American Review of Politics *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 List of Figures and Tables Chapter 3 Introduction: Advancing Minority Voting Rights: How Do We Get From Here to There? Chapter 4 Redistricting and Voting Rights Issues, 1992-2002: A Legal Analysis Chapter 5 Political Parties, Redistricting, and Minority Representation: The Southern States, 1992-2002 Chapter 6 Drawing Effective Minority Districts: A Conceptual Model Chapter 7 Redistricting 2000: A Lost Opportunity for Latinos Chapter 8 Reapportionment / Redistricting Politics in Georgia: The 1990s and 2001-2002: Reflections of a Participant-Observer Chapter 9 Racial Redistricting and Southern Republican Congressional Gains in the 1990s Chapter 10 About the Authors
