Minority Representation and the Quest for Voting Equality. (book reviews)

Grofman, Handley, and Niemi have written a very useful descriptive and historical analysis of the litigation surrounding the 1965 Voting Rights Act and its subsequent amendments. The authors devote much of their discussion to explaining the implications of the 1982 Amendment and its relationship to the 1986 case of Thornburg v. Gingles. The Gingles case helped establish a set of standards for evaluating the dilution of minority votes. By 1986 litigants no longer had to prove discriminatory intent as a prerequisite to a challenge.

After acknowledging in chapter one that the right to ...

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