Restricting Voting Rights in Modern America

The Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder ruling invalidating Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is in part a product of efforts to resist further transformations to the traditional American institutional arrangements that have conferred advantages on whites, especially disproportionate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Desmond King, Rogers M. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2016-01-01
Series:Transatlantica
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7432