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Contents Foreword Part I: Social Science Perspectives 1. Black-Majority Districts or Black Influence Districts? Evaluating the Representation of African Americans in the Wake of Georgia v. Ashcroft Christian R. Grose 2. Racial Redistricting and the Election of African-American County Supervisors in Mississippi David Lublin and Cheryl Lampkin 3. More Information Requests and the Deterrent Effect of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Luis Ricardo Fraga and Maria Lizet Ocampo 4. Transforming Votes into Victories: Turnout, Institutional Context, and Minority Representation in Local Politics Zoltan Hajnal and Jessica Trounstine 5. An Assessment of Racially Polarized Voting For and Against Latino Candidates Yishaiya Absoch, Matt A. Barreto, and Nathan D. Woods 6. Majority-Minority Districts, Co-Ethnic Candidates, and Mobilization Effects Gary M. Segura and Nathan D. Woods 7. Verifying Implementation of Language Provisions in the Voting Rights Act Michael Jones-Correa and Israel Waismel-Manor Part II: Legal Perspectives 8. Not Like the South? Regional Variation and Political Participation Through the Lens of Section 2 Ellen Katz 9. Saving Section 5: Reflections on Georgia v. Ashcroft and its Impact on the Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act David J. Becker 10. An Assessment of the Bailout Provisions of the Voting Rights Act J. Gerald Hebert 11. Language Accommodation and the Voting Rights Act Angelo N. Ancheta 12. Language Protections for All? Extending and Expanding the Language Protections of the Voting Rights Act Jocelyn Benson
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
African Americans -- Suffrage.
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Minorities -- Suffrage -- United States.
Linguistic minorities -- Suffrage -- United States.
Voter registration -- Government policy -- United States.
Representative government and representation -- United States.
United States. Constitution. 15th Amendment.