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Author Kousser, J. Morgan, author.

Title Colorblind injustice : minority voting rights and the undoing of the Second Reconstruction / by J. Morgan Kousser
Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 590 pages) : illustrations
Series Immigration law & policy in the U.S
UNC Press law publications
Civil rights and social justice
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-553) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
English
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Print version record; online resource viewed September 8, 2016
Lillian Smith Book Award, 1999
American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 2000
Subject African Americans -- Suffrage -- History
Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
African Americans -- Suffrage
Minorities -- Suffrage
Wahlrecht
Nationale Minderheit
Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Minderheden.
United States
USA
Schwärze
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807862657
9780807862650