Jean Reith Schroedel

Voting in Indian Country

The View from the Trenches

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Produktbeschreibung

Voting in Indian Country uses conflicts over voting rights to understand the centuries-long fight for Native self-determination, using ethnographic data and weaving together history, politics, and law to provide a robust view of this often-ignored struggle for social justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252514
• ISBN-10: 0812252519
• Artikelnr.: 58819515

Autorenporträt

Jean Reith Schroedel

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The Question of Citizenship
Chapter 1. The Framing of American Indian Citizenship
Chapter 2. Ambiguous Civic Status
Part II. The Promise of the Ballot Box
Chapter 3. The Voting Rights Act Reaches Indian Country
Chapter 4. The Shift to Vote Dilution, Suppression, and Abridgment
Chapter 5. A Case Study of Jackson County, South Dakota
Part III. Grassroots Perspectives
Chapter 6. Lawyers and Native Voting Rights
Chapter 7. Lifetimes of Activism
Chapter 8. Grassroots Voting Rights Activism
Chapter 9. Stepping Forward
Chapter 10. Why It Matters
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments