Voting Hopes or Fears?: White Voters, Black Candidates, and Racial Politics in AmericaOxford University Press, 23 oct. 1997 - 200 pagini When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, he explained that it flowed from "a clear and simple wrong." But a generation later, whites still remain resistant to the election of blacks to public office. That widespread resistance, Keith Reeves illustrates, can be explained in large part by election campaign appeals to whites' racial fears and sentiments. Based on empirical research examining white voters' attitudes towards black candidates and racial framing of campaign news coverage, Voting Hopes or Fears? explosively documents that racial discrimination against black candidates is contemporary, specific, and identifiable. Reeves concludes by outlining possible remedies such as modified at-large voting systems and by defending the practice of race-conscious legislative districting, now under attack by the Supreme Court. Marshaling startling evidence of voting discrimination against black candidates on account of race, and featuring a Foreword by The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., Chief Justice Emeritus of the US Court of Appeals, Voting Hopes or Fears? will be mandatory reading for political and social scientists, scholars of racism and African-American Studies, civil rights litigators, journalists, black lawmakers and office-seekers, and general readers interested in the subject of race and politics in American society. |
Cuprins
OUR INTRACTABLE PROBLEM | 11 |
THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE | 43 |
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND EQUAL POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY REVISITED | 91 |
The Content Analysis Study | 113 |
The 1992 Biracial Election Campaign Study | 115 |
The Voting Rights Act | 119 |
Notes | 145 |
References | 155 |
Table of Cases | 172 |
Index | 173 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
1992 Biracial Campaign Abigail Thernstrom account of race affirmative action Agree Agree Disagree Agree Disagree Disagree American Article Campaign Coverage Attorney ballot biracial contest black candidates black mayor black office-seeker blacks have less campaign stories citizens city's Cleo Fields Congress congressional Content Analysis Study Cynthia McKinney David Dinkins declaratory judgment Democrat Dinkins District Court Dukakis federal fifteenth amendment Gantt gender Grofman Harvey Gantt housing than white Ibid issue Kleppner language minority Louisiana majority-white Mayoral Election Mickey Michaux Office of Personnel percent of whites percentage person political subdivision poll President and Vice qualification race or color racial appeals Racial Attitudes racial campaign appeals racial discrimination racial quotas racial references registration Republican respondents right to vote Seattle Story Experiment study participants subsection survey TABLE test or device Thernstrom tion Tom Bradley undecided United United States Code Voting Rights Act white voters Willie Horton worse jobs York
Pasaje populare
Pagina 5 - American Creed', where the American thinks, talks, and acts under the influence of high national and Christian precepts, and, on the other hand, the valuations on specific planes of individual and group living, where personal and local interests, economic, social, and sexual jealousies, considerations of community prestige and conformity, group prejudice against particular persons or types of people, and all sorts of miscellaneous wants, impulses and habits dominate his outlook.
Pagina 128 - Columbia for a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color...
Pagina 120 - The extent to which members of a protected class have been elected to office in the State or political subdivision is one circumstance which may be considered: Provided, That nothing in this section establishes a right to have members of a protected class elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.
Pagina 5 - The American Negro problem is a problem in the heart of the American. It is there that the interracial tension has its focus. It is there that the decisive struggle goes on. This is the central viewpoint of this treatise. Though our study includes economic, social, and political race relations, at bottom our problem is the moral dilemma of the American — the conflict between his moral valuations on various levels of consciousness and generality. The "American Dilemma...
Pagina 95 - ... less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.
Pagina 4 - You do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.
Pagina 17 - You needed that job, and you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair?
Pagina 136 - State law prerequisite to voting, casting a ballot, and having such ballot counted and included in the appropriate totals of votes cast with respect to candidates for public office and propositions for which votes are received in an election; the words "affected area...
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