Title Mistaken identity : the Supreme Court and the politics of minority representation / Keith J. Bybee.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]
	©1998

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Description	1 online resource (x, 194 pages)
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.
Contents	Chapter 1 The Voting Rights Act and the Struggle for Meaningful Political Membership 12 -- Chapter 2 The Supreme Court and Representation: Building an Analytical Framework 30 -- Chapter 3 Sound and Fury: Identifying the Role of Political Identity in the Public Debate 51 -- Chapter 4 The Early Cases 70 -- Chapter 5 The Later Cases: The Polarization of Judicial Debate 98 -- Chapter 6 The Possibilities of Legislative Learning 145.
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Summary	Is it ever legitimate to redraw electoral districts on the basis of race? In its long struggle with this question, the U.S. Supreme Court has treated race-conscious redistricting either as a requirement of political fairness or as an exercise in corrosive racial quotas. Cutting through these contradictory positions, Keith Bybee examines the theoretical foundations of the Court's decisions and the ideological controversy those decisions have engendered. He uncovers erroneous assumptions about political identity on both sides of the debate and formulates new terms on which minority representati.
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Subject	United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
	Voting Rights Act of 1965 (United States) (OCoLC)fst01363616
	Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States.
	Proportional representation -- United States.
	Representative government and representation -- United States.
	Election districts -- United States.
	Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
	LAW -- Constitutional.
	LAW -- Public.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- Legislative Branch.
	Election districts. (OCoLC)fst00904291
	Minorities -- Suffrage. (OCoLC)fst01023247
	Political questions and judicial power. (OCoLC)fst01069674
	Proportional representation. (OCoLC)fst01079244
	Representative government and representation. (OCoLC)fst01094941
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Indexed Term	Jura Jura.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Bybee, Keith J., 1965- Mistaken identity. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998 (DLC) 97051799
ISBN	9781400822775 (electronic book)
	1400822777 (electronic book)
	1400811163 (electronic book)
	9781400811168 (electronic book)
	0691017298 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0691094969
	9780691094960

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