Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2002
Andrew W. Schwartz
Pages 93-100
Affirmative Action and Electoral Engineering
Two Forms of Race-Conscious Distracting
Majority-Minority electoral districts, while increasing the number of minorities in legislatures, work to deepen divisions among racial groups, to exacerbate the systematic disadvantages of some individuals, and to impede effective representation. I examine another form of race-conscious districting that will increase marginalized minority presence in legislatures while avoiding these problems.