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Colorblind injustice : minority voting rights and the undoing of the Second Reconstruction / by J. Morgan Kousser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kousser, J. Morgan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Suffrage--History.
- African Americans.
- Minorities--Suffrage--United States--History.
- Minorities.
- African Americans--History--Suffrage--United States.
- Minorities--History--Suffrage.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 590 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book compares the failed First Reconstruction (after the Civil War) to the relatively successful Second Reconstruction, which encompasses the Civil Rights movement after World War II.
- Contents:
- The Voting Rights Act and the two Reconstructions
- Real racial gerrymandering : lessons from L.A.
- Changing the rules to preserve white supremacy in Memphis
- Controlling the "bloc vote" in Georgia
- A century of electoral discrimination in North Carolina
- Traditional districting principles, Texas-style
- Intent and effect in law and history
- Shaw and postmodern equal protection
- History and equality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-553) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9798890870094
- 9780807862650
- 0807862657
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