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Author:
Tucker, James Thomas.
Title:
The battle over bilingual ballots : language minorities and political access under the Voting Rights Act / James Thomas Tucker.
Publisher:
Ashgate Pub.,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
xvi, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Linguistic minorities--Suffrage--United States.
United States.--Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-391) and indexes.
Contents:
Literacy test bans before 1975 -- Language assistance for voters before 1975 -- Special protections for language minority voters since 1975 -- Language assistance and voter assistance since 1975 -- The July 2002 determinations and section 203 coverage -- Implementation and cost of language assistance in covered jurisdictions -- Passage of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Act of 2006 -- Debunking ten myths about language assistance -- Discrimination against Alaska natives -- Remedying language discrimination in the Bethel census area of Alaska -- Essays on language assistance under the VRA.
Series:
Election law, politics, and theory
ISBN:
0754698564 (ebk.)
9780754698562 (ebk.)
0754675726 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780754675723 (hbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)340994035
LCCN:
2009020470
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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