James Thomas Tucker

The Battle Over Bilingual Ballots

Language Minorities and Political Access Under the Voting Rights Act

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Produktbeschreibung

The 'bilingual ballot' provisions of the Voting Rights Act, enacted in 1965 and expanded a decade later to remove language barriers to voting by prohibiting English-only elections in certain jurisdictions, remain a subject of intense debate in election law and American politics. This book offers the first-ever comprehensive examination of the subject, making a persuasive case for the provisions and investigating the sources and consequences of the controversy surrounding them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 920g
• ISBN-13: 9780754675723
• ISBN-10: 0754675726
• Artikelnr.: 57039439

Autorenporträt

James Thomas Tucker is a voting rights attorney whose areas of expertise include race and redistricting, and language accessibility. He has worked with the Native American Rights Fund and the U.S. Department of Justice, and has published more than a dozen journal articles and book chapters on minority voting rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Part I Remedies for Language Minority Voters before
1975: Literacy test bans before 1975; Language assistance for voters before
1975. Part II The Language Assistance Amendments to the Voting Rights Act:
Special protections for language minority voters since 1975; Language
assistance and voter assistance since 1975. Part III The Need for Language
Assistance and its Availability, Quality and Cost: The July 2002
determinations and Section 203 coverage; Implementation and cost of
language assistance in covered jurisdictions. Part IV The Debate Over
Reauthorization of the VRA's Language Assistance Provisions in 2006:
Passage of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Act of 2006; Debunking 10
myths about language assistance. Part V A Case Study of Discrimination:
Alaska Natives: Discrimination against Alaska natives; Remedying language
discrimination in the Bethel census area of Alaska. Part VI Commentaries
and Appendices: Essays on language assistance under the VRA; Selected
bibliography; Indexes.