American Politics Today - Essentials (3rd Ed)

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Canon, David T. Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The
Unintended Consequences of Black-Majority Districts.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Dawson, Michael C. Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-
American Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1994.
Gross, Ariela J. What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial
in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Hochschild, Jennifer L. Facing Up to the American Dream: Race,
Class, and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1995.
Katznelson, Ira. When Affi rmative Action Was White: An Untold
History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America.
New York: Norton, 2005.
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board
of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality. New
York: Vintage, 2004.

Kousser, J. Morgan. Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights

and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction. Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Lublin, David. The Paradox of Representation: Racial

Gerrymandering and Minority Interests in Congress.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Tate, Katherine. Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and

Their Representatives in Congress. Princeton, NJ: Princeton

University Press, 2003.

Thernstrom, Stephan, and Abigail Thernstrom. America in Black

and White: One Nation, Indivisible: Race in Modern America.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

SUGGESTED READING

CRITICAL THINKING AND DISCUSSION

Should government attempt to provide a level playing fi eld

by making sure that there is no discrimination, or should it

go beyond providing equality of opportunity to also be con-

cerned with the equality of outcomes?

S PRACTICE ONLINE

“Big Think” video exercise: Laurènce Tribe and the

Shifting Supreme Court