Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting
Regular price
€132.99
A01=Olivier Richomme
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Olivier Richomme
automatic-update
California politics
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JPHF
Category=JPVL
Category=JPWC
conjoined polarization
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
election law
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
gerrymandering
Language_English
Latino politics
minority representation
PA=Available
partisan polarization
Price_€100 and above
PS=Active
racial polarization
redistricting
softlaunch
voting rights
Product details
- ISBN 9781498585927
- Weight: 753g
- Dimensions: 160 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Race and Partisanship in California Redistricting: From the 1965 Voting Rights Act to Present studies redistricting and its evolution in California since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It poses the question: What is the interactive play of race and partisanship in redefining the meaning of political representation through redistricting? Unlike other studies of redistricting, it focuses not on the South but on the West, not on White versus Black, but on the difficulties of diversity. It tells the story of redistricting in California, which has now become one of the most left-leaning states and is considered a harbinger of political trends in the United States. Ultimately, this is a book that looks forward by looking backward at the tug-and-pull of redistricting efforts aimed at ensuring greater equality in a racially diverse democracy and asks: What is the role played by race and partisanship in the voting rights revolution? How does that vary far from the traditional flashpoints of American race relations? What does that tell us about the redefinition of political representation in the past half-century? And––most crucially––what does it foretell, for the next half century?
Olivier Richomme is associate professor of American history at the University of Lyon.
