TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rivers,Christina R.
TI  - The Congressional Black Caucus, minority voting rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court
SN  - 9780472028214
AV  - KF4893 
U1  - 324.6/208996073 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - The University of Michigan Press
KW  - Congressional Black Caucus
KW  - United States
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - fast
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Suffrage
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Process
KW  - Elections
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American Government
KW  - Legislative Branch
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index; Introduction -- Competing approaches to law and voting minority rights -- Foundations of Black political activism : pushing idealist boundaries -- The Congressional Black Caucus : pushing legislative boundaries -- The Congressional Black Caucus : pushing constitutional boundaries -- The Supreme Court : pushing back -- Reconciling the present with the past
N2  - Both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) claim to advocate minority political interests, yet they disagree over the intent and scope of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), as well as the interpretation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Whereas the Court promotes color-blind policies, the CBC advocates race-based remedies. Setting this debate in the context of the history of black political thought, Rivers examines a series of high-profile districting cases, from Rodgers v. Lodge (1982) through NAMUDNO v. Holder (2009). She evaluates the competing approaches to racial equality and concludes, surprisingly, that an originalist, race-conscious interpretation of the 14th Amendment, along with a revised states' rights position regarding electoral districting, may better serve minority political interests
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