Brent Tarter 
Gerrymanders [EPUB ebook] 
How Redistricting Has Protected Slavery, White Supremacy, and Partisan Minorities in Virginia

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Many are aware that gerrymandering exists and suspect it plays a role in our elections, but its history goes far deeper, and its impacts are far greater, than most realize. In his latest book, Brent Tarter focuses on Virginia’s long history of gerrymandering to uncover its immense influence on the state’s politics and to provide perspective on how the practice impacts politics nationally.

Offering the first in-depth historical study of gerrymanders in Virginia, Tarter exposes practices going back to nineteenth century and colonial times and explains how they protected land owners’ and slave owners’ interests. The consequences of redistricting and reapportionment in modern Virginia—in effect giving a partisan minority the upper hand in all public policy decisions—become much clearer in light of this history.

Where the discussion of gerrymandering has typically emphasized political parties’ control of Congress, Tarter focuses on the state legislatures that determine congressional district lines and, in most states, even those of their own districts. On the eve of the 2021 session of the General Assembly, which will redraw district lines for Virginia’s state Senate and House of Delegates, as well as for the U.S. House of Representatives, Tarter’s book provides an eye-opening investigation of gerrymandering and its pervasive effect on our local, state, and national politics and government.


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1. The Gerrymander Monster

2. The Colonial Background

3. Representation in Revolutionary Virginia

4. A Gerrymander in Fact Though Not in Name

5. The Great Gerrymander of 1830

6. The Great Gerrymander Revised and Disguised

7. Disenfranchisement Replaces the Great Gerrymander

8. Malapportionment in the Twentieth Century

9. The Representation Revolution of the 1960s

10. The Representation Revolution in Virginia

11. Partisan Redistricting

12. The Political and Legal Landscapes in Virginia in 2019

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Brent Tarter is a founding editor of the Library of Virginia’s Dictionary of Virginia Biography and the author of A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia(Virginia).

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 140 ● ISBN 9780813943213 ● Mărime fișier 1.0 MB ● Vârstă 99-17 ani ● Editura University of Virginia Press ● Oraș Charlottesville ● Țară US ● Publicat 2019 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 7103231 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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