Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation

by Keith Bybee

Book Overview

Is it ever legitimate to redraw electoral districts on the basis of race? In its long struggle with this question, the U.S. Supreme Court has treated race-conscious redistricting either as a requirement of political fairness or as an exercise in corrosive racial quotas. Cutting through these contradictory positions, Keith Bybee examines the theoretical foundations of the Court's decisions and the ideological controversy those decisions have engendered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691094969
• ISBN13: 9780691094960
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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Bybee walks us through the paces on this important topic with a brilliance so intense its glare nearly blinds us to the fact that we're in the presence of genius. Buy the book.