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When the letter betrays the spirit : voting rights enforcement and African American participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama
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- Creator
- Tyson D. King-Meadows
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xxviii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0739149148, 9780739149126, 9780739149133, 9780739149140, 073914913X, 9786613224521, 1283224526, 0739149121
- OCLC
- ocn746926915, ocn724673504
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Congressional authority and voting rights enforcement: a retrospective and prospective look at the Voting Rights Act -- Why discretion matters in voting rights enforcement -- Obama's inheritance: the Johnson framework, the VRA, and faith in federal power -- Misdirection: political theatre and the 2006 reauthorization of section 5 -- Partisan spoils of office: a post-Shaw judicial philosophy of civic literacy -- Is "Bull Connor" dead? contemporary public opinion on voting rights policy -- A battle of principals: Congress, the DOJ, and the George W. Bush Administration -- The macro-political context shaping enfranchisement, 2000-2008 -- Conclusion regulating discretion and the challenge of post-racial politics