When the letter betrays the spirit
Subtitle: voting rights enforcement and African American participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama
By: Tyson D. King-Meadows
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780739149126; 9780739149133; 9780739149140
Subjects: Politics and government; United States; Suffrage; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Congressional authority and voting rights enforcement: a retrospective and prospective look at the Voting Rights Act; title: Why discretion matters in voting rights enforcement; title: Obama's inheritance: the Johnson framework, the VRA, and faith in federal power; title: Misdirection: political theatre and the 2006 reauthorization of section 5; title: Partisan spoils of office: a post-Shaw judicial philosophy of civic literacy; title: Is "Bull Connor" dead? contemporary public opinion on voting rights policy; title: A battle of principals: Congress, the DOJ, and the George W. Bush Administration; title: The macro-political context shaping enfranchisement, 2000-2008; title: Conclusion regulating discretion and the challenge of post-racial politics.