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Whose votes count? : affirmative action and minority voting rights / Abigail M. Thernstrom.
LIBRA KF4893 .T46 1987
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thernstrom, Abigail M., 1936-2020.
- Series:
- Twentieth Century Fund report
- A Twentieth Century Fund report
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Suffrage.
- African Americans.
- Hispanic Americans--Suffrage.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Intervention (Federal government)--United States.
- Intervention (Federal government).
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- African Americans--Suffrage.
- Hispanic Americans--Suffrage.
- Intervention (Federal government)--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 316 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- "A Twentieth Century Fund study."Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [257]-302.
- Contents:
- Foreword / M.J. Rossant
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The First Five Years
- Inadvertent Gains
- The Mexican-American Connection
- Travels in a Political Thicket
- The Politics of Passage in the House
- Liberal Power in a Conservative Senate
- Amendment by Enforcement
- Detours around the Law
- The Meaning of Electoral Equality
- Conclusion
- Appendix: The Voting Rights Act
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index of Voting Rights Cases
- General Index.
- Notes:
- "A Twentieth Century Fund study."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-302).
- Includes indexes.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1988
- Other Format:
- Online version: Thernstrom, Abigail M., 1936- Whose votes count?
- ISBN:
- 0674951956
- 9780674951952
- 0674951964
- 9780674951969
- OCLC:
- 15316875
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