List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 A Politically Correct Solution to Racial Classification 3
2 The Representation of Minority Interests 21
3 Electoral Systems and Minority Representation 50
4 Racial Fairness in Legislative Redistricting 85
5 Race, Representation, and Redistricting 111
6 African Americans in U.S. Social Policy 129
7 Race and the Organization of Welfare Policy 156
8 National Parties and Racial Disenfranchisement 188
9 The Politics of Racial Isolation in Europe and America 217
10 Racial Group Competition in Urban Elections 245
11 The Color of Urban Campaigns 262
12 Religious Institutions and African American Political Mobilization 278
13 Race and Voter Registration in the South 313
14 The Effects of Ethnicity on Political Culture 333
15 Race, Ethnicity, and Political Participation 354
References 379
Contributors 407
Index 409

The contemporary debate over racial classification has been dominated by fringe voices in American society. Cries from the right say history should be abrogated and public policy made color-blind, while zealots of the left insist that all customs, language, institutions, and practices are racially tinged and that only aggressive, color-conscious programs can reverse the course of American history. The essays in this volume, however, recognize that racial classification is an issue that cuts too deep and poses too many constitutional questions to be resolved by slogans of either the right or the left.
The contributors to this volume are James Alt, Kenneth Benoit, Henry Brady, John Bruce, Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Andrew Gelman, Lani Guinier, Fredrick C. Harris, Gary King, Robert C. Lieberman, David Ian Lublin, David Metz, Paul E. Peterson, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Kenneth Shepsle, Theda Skocpol, Katherine Tate, Richard Valelly, Sidney Verba, and Margaret Weir.
Originally published in 1995.
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